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Comment by dimmuborgir | Hacker News Reader

Are you saying that Chinese authorities are not corrupt? Did the state controlled media of China make you believe so?

Take a look at Corruption Index published by Transparency International:

http://transparency.org/policy_research/surveys_indices/cpi/...

Both China and India are the same. In fact, with free-media, India has a greater chance of tackling corruption in the future than China.

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This index is about transparency, corruption, and accountability. India is transparent, but corrupt. China lacks transparency, but bribery is rare.

In India, you have to pay small (or large) bribes to get anything done. You are faced with a bureaucracy which wants to trip you up with red tape, to force you to pay more bribes. This is not conductive to small business.

China really falls apart when it comes to bigger businesses. State owned enterprises get preferential treatment for all kinds of things, especially funding. And bigger businesses have to follow regulations more carefully.

Any source that China is more conducive to small businesses than India?

http://doingbusiness.org/rankings

  China - 79
  India - 134

I was asking with respect to bribery. The list you quoted takes a lot of other things like infrastructure, funding etc into consideration.

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