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Confused by the world financial crisis? You should be

IMF and World Bank meetings this week are the season's greatest gathering of the clueless and the culpable. The big decisions about the global financial storm are being made elsewhere.

Published:12 October 2008 07:04 GMT
Author: Edmund O'Sullivan

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