Building a welfare state in any one of them is a bit like creating a single welfare state across the European Union.

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Li, who wrote his doctoral thesis in economics, has detailed the critical nature of building a sounder social welfare system.

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But building institutions of democracy, structures for economic growth and welfare, education, development, and the rule of law are major steps and will take time.

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