ESSENTIALS OF ECONOMICS
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Author: SCHILLER
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Chapter 1, Problem 4QFD
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To analyze:The reason behind China’s military being twice as large as North Korea’s with China’s spending 2.1% of its GDP on the military and North Korea spending 19% of its GDP.
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