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DESPITE the economic gloom, the world is happier than it was before the financial crisis set in (according to a recent poll from Ipsos which surveyed 19,000 adults in 24 countries). 77% of respondents describe themselves as "happy", three percentage points higher than in 2007. Those countries who report themselves as being the happiest tend to be in poor and middle-income countries, while the gloomiest are in rich countries (the figures for Italy and Spain were 13% and 11%).
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- A Crise Da Dívida Europeia
Understanding the European Crisis Now Countries with too much sovereign debt have increasingly found it difficult to raise the money they need at affordable rates in the financial markets. At the same time, banks in many of these countries have come...
- Tempo Perdido
Lost time Apr 17th 2012, 15:09 by The Economist online How many years of economic output has the rich world lost? SINCE the financial crisis struck in 2008, the economic output of most of the rich world has stalled. By the end of the last quarter...
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The Economist online Income inequality is rising in rich countriesTHE gap between rich and poor has grown ever wider in wealthy countries over the past three decades. A new report by the OECD has reams of data on this phenomenon and is well worth looking...