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    Prostitution and drugs to be included in Italian GDP

    Since deficit limits in the Euro zone are indexed to GDP, Italy will "boost" its economy by including drugs, prostitution and smuggling in the calculation of its gross domestic product.   Story here.

     

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      Hew

      What’s the point of picking Italy out of all the 28 EU countries that from 2016 will be required to stick to the Eurostat guidelines and include illegal activities in their GDP calculations? Any more or less implicit bias at work here?

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