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FOX NEWS: North Korea lying? Satellite data suggest China, Russia, North Korea may be falsifying GDP numbers


North Korea lying? Satellite data suggest China, Russia, North Korea may be falsifying GDP numbers



A new research paper suggests that authoritarian regimes, in countries like China, Russia and North Korea are manipulating their gross domestic product (GDP), perhaps by as much as 15 to 30 percent in any one year.

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