But Mr. Weitold him that he hadtelephonedDrLubefore to seek his adviceandarranged anappointment. Mr Zhang felt obligated and went with Mr Wei to meet Dr Lu.
One recent study, by an American academic, Shang-Jin Wei, calculated that an increase in the level of corruption from that of Singapore to that of, say, Mexico would be the equivalent of increasing the tax burden on foreign investors by over 20%.