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Blog Entries by Otaviano Canuto from 09/2012

Is Shadow Banking Dangerous for You?

| Posted 09.12.2012 | World
Read More: Credit Intermediation, Emerging Economies, Unregulated Banking, Informal Banking, Shadow Banking, Economics, Shadow Banking China, World News

Are all financial activities that operate outside the regular banking system bad? Is anything that is lightly regulated or not regulated at all dangerous for the economy and bad for you?

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Not All That Glitters Is Gold

| Posted 09.19.2012 | World
Read More: Economic Data, Gdp, Income Inequality, Economic Measurement, Quality of Life, Macroeconomics, World News

Gross Domestic Product, better known as GDP, is the market value of all final goods and services produced within a country in a given period. That's why GDP per capita is widely used as a summary indicator of living standards in a country.

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Like a Hummingbird -- From Chile to Mongolia

| Posted 09.27.2012 | World
Read More: South-South Cooperation, Macroeconomics, Mongolia Economy, Global Poverty, World Poverty, Mongolia, World Bank, World News

Increased cross-learning and cooperation among developing countries has been a remarkable feature of the global economy in recent decades.

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