Latest local government debt audit: Western China is the fiscal laggard
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The first step is to admit you have a problem. The second is to try to understand the scale.The National Audit Office (NAO) is trying to do the latter for local government debt.
The NAO just released the preliminary results of its most recent audit. The key findings:
The stickiest problems li...