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CHINA
CHINA: The moral hazard related to local government debt cannot be stemmed, as
China has no clear definition of local government bankruptcy, Xu Zhong, head of
the research department at the People's Bank of China, said at an economic forum
on Friday. The fiscal mismatch between local and central governments has
worsened the moral hazard related to the unlimited expansion of central
government debt, Xu noted. With no definition of "bankruptcy," the goal of
state-owned enterprise reform -- improving company governance -- will never be
achieved, Xu said.

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