8 OCTOBER 1994, page 35

Paye Day

Paye day SIGHTED ON the meeting's fringes: Jacques Attali. He cannot keep away, though he looks shrunken without his personal jet, his cavalcade of outriders, and his lavish......

Bridge Finance

Bridge finance THESE MEETINGS are unremittingly social ('How nice to see you again, Mr Cantquitereadyourbadge') and I vainly try to model my technique on Roy Bridge's. He was......

The Best Policy

The best policy THE CLARKE plan for bailing out the world's most corrupt governments - correction: the world's poorest countries - got off to a patter of applause, except from......

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Explaining A Miracle

Explaining a miracle DAYS OF mutual congratulation have marked the 50th anniversary of Bretton Woods, the conference where the IMF and World Bank were set up. It was left to......

[upstairs In A Marble Version Of St Pan-...]

CITY AND SUBURBAN Upstairs, downstairs - in Madrid's marble halls, the peasants are revolting CHRISTOPHER FILDES I Upstars ina marle vesion fStMadrid tpstairs in a marble......