Let your friends and contacts know, for example, if you just attended a full-day seminar on a topic that would be useful to a future employer, post an interesting article related to your field, or add new skills or relevant experience to your profile.

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But mobile money and other new ideas that could help the poor (see article) provide a useful reminder that financial innovation in itself is not always a bad thing.

ECONOMIST: Telecoms

For purposes of this article we would like to introduce a new and more useful perspective for pensions in their analysis of soft dollars or any other brokerage issue.

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The euro area may also suffer from an imminent slowdown in eastern Europe, which has been a useful source of demand but where several economies look newly vulnerable (see article).

ECONOMIST: Europe's economies