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Brazil credit: down to BNDES

The national development bank has a bursting portfolio, increasing loan disbursements by a third in the first two months of the year

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Indonesia growth slows to five-year low

Mining and transportation industries were hit by the government ban on the export of unprocessed minerals, dragging first quarter expansion down to 5.2%

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China wakes up to pension problem

Local governments allow factories to pay lower contributions than legally required due to concerns about manufacturers moving operations elsewhere

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Brussels cuts eurozone inflation forecast

European Commission says eurozone’s recovery is holding as it forecasts inflation to slow further, to 0.8% this year and 1.2% in 2015

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Gary Becker, US economist, 1930-2014

Nobel laureate led the movement to apply economic ideas to areas of life such as marriage, discrimination and crime

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