Global fat cats
WHAT will be the hot topic at the cocktail parties during the annual meetings of the IMF and the World Bank in Prague? Oil prices, the euro? Neither: the serious gossip will be about the pay of top policymakers and in how much luxury they travelled to the meeting.
This article appeared in the Finance & economics section of the print edition under the headline “Global fat cats”
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