They work very hard and they get relatively little for it. I wouldn't call that prosperity yet. Their stock index (SSE Composite Index) hasn't grown at all since 2009. Their GDP growth has been slowing, especially when you consider that they constantly devaluate their own currency (the inflation should make their growth numbers look bigger).
You can point to nice modern cities like Shanghai and assume that China is prosperous, but you can do the same with Pyongyang and assume that North Korea is prosperous.
Besides that, they seem to have been getting freer over time until about 2009 (compared to what they had before)... 2009 is also when the GDP growth rate started to fall.
You can point to nice modern cities like Shanghai and assume that China is prosperous, but you can do the same with Pyongyang and assume that North Korea is prosperous.
Besides that, they seem to have been getting freer over time until about 2009 (compared to what they had before)... 2009 is also when the GDP growth rate started to fall.