U. vote should make it clear that Europe's overall economic system makes for a poor role model for our country.

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The 18th Party Congress in late 2012 came up with a new plan to double average income by 2020 by changing the economic growth model and income distribution system.

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He is known to admire aspects of Britain's economic system, notably its flexible labour markets - a model rejected by many on the French left.

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To a large extent, China is where it is now because it has followed the western model of economic development for developed economies, while retaining its own political system.

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She also said that Germany's "social market economy" could serve as a model for a future international financial system in which governments guarded both the "social and economic order" and proposed the creation of a U.N. economic council modeled on the Security Council.

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While the merger will have to overcome several political obstacles, it is a sign that the Greek banking system begins to respond to the economic crisis, and a vote of confidence by foreign investors that can become the model for other Greek and European banks.

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