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From the Editor

Multilateralist solutions for a globalized world

In Brief

Growing more than GDP
Dementia cases set to triple
Plugging leaks
eHealth revolution
Supporting sustainable transportation
Events in 2012

People in Economics

The Man with the Patience to Cook a Stone

F&D profiles Justin Yifu Lin, the first World Bank chief economist from a developing or emerging economy

webcast Lin’s book launch

Picture This

Access to Banking Services

Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Leora Klapper
New database shows gaps in how people save, borrow, make payments, and manage risk

Back to Basics

What Is Money?

Irena Asmundson and Ceyda Oner
Without it, modern economies could not function

Book Reviews

Reforming the Unreformable: Lessons from Nigeria, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Russia: A Long View, Yegor Gaidar

Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Created Modern Finance, Jane Gleeson-White

What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets, Michael Sandel

Data Spotlight

Tracking Use of Fiscal Rules

Nina Budina and Andrea Schaechter
Numerical limits have emerged as a key response to the fiscal legacy of the crisis

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