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" Uncertainty and fears of social decline and exclusion have reached the middle class in many societies. "

Jose Angel Gurria

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" I was an economist out of the National University of Mexico, where you lived the realities of Mexico all the time. "

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" You can accuse Europeans of being many things - except fast. "

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