Singapore has classified one area of the city state as a creative zone.

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But the financial leaders of the U.S. and the euro zone have zero appetite for creative destruction.

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Middlehaven is home to Middlesbrough College and the town's Boho Zone, where dozens of creative businesses are based.

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There is a correlation between the amount of creative accounting that went on in the euro zone in the decade to 2003 and government-bond yields now.

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Grey New York blocks off a "no meeting zone" every Thursday morning, to allow employees sustained time for work on creative projects.

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