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Activity 2: Green Paper: Towards a Common Understanding of Risk by The True Potential Centre for The Public Understanding of Finance (PUFin) The Business School of The Open University © The Open University
Activity 2: Question 5: White Paper: Towards a Common Understanding of Risk by The True Potential Centre for The Public Understanding of Finance (PUFin) The Business School of The Open University © The Open University
Activity 5: Rutterford, J, Maltby, J., Green, D. R., and Owens, A. (2009) ‘Researching shareholding and investment in England and Wales: Approaches, sources and methods47’, Accounting History, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 269–292
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Figure 3: Graph – OECD statistics - Long term annual interest rates (%): : Taken from http://stats.oecd.org/
Figure 4: Sovereign debt (% GDP)/Fiscal budget (%GDP): Taken from http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/
Figure 5: Graph – Top income share: Taken from http://topincomes.g-mond.parisschoolofeconomics.eu/
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