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Drug dealers and prostitutes can improve Russia’s GDP – officials
Published: 13 October, 2010, 22:42
Edited: 14 October, 2010, 15:00
The State Statistics Service has come up with an inventive way to improve Russia’s economical performance: by stretching the GDP with illegal revenues.
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Will it not be better to take radical actions to limit corruption and illegal actions. It seems that this was Mr Medvedev's credo to become president. This topic encourage the opposite direction. In America, prostitution is illegal but escort's girls business is not which procure the same service; mostly for the riches...Belle mentalité ! As I repeat so often, Russia copy the West more and more; mostly for the bad part. Sorry Future Generations...JCM
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The main business of the shadow economy will be construction projects, new apartments. And second, prostitution and drugs...But including them only would make sense if prostitution and/or drugs are legalised. If they are not legal, it doesn´t make sense. Easier would be legalising four million immigrants who have been living in the Russian Federation for years. That would make them and their employers paying social taxes.