• imaqtpieA
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    8 hours ago

    Tbf, North Korea is almost certainly wealthier than Haiti. North Korean GDP figures from western sources are completely made up, their economy is a black box. In fact, many GDP estimates of developing economies are inaccurate at best, if not dead wrong. Turns out that people living at the subsistence level, as well as authoritarian dictators and warlords, aren’t particularly interested in reporting their earnings for taxation purposes.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informal_economy