Central and eastern Europe are most exposed to euro-zone bank deleveraging, and the huge importance of the euro area in the region's trade will deal it a further blow (see right-hand chart).

ECONOMIST: The world economy

The whole point is that the amount of radioactivity people outside the evacuation zone are exposed to is likely to be small, even if we include the amounts in food and tap water.

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American banks are less exposed to wobbly euro-zone countries, but the numbers are still pretty big.

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The euro-zone crisis has exposed such hypocrisy.

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Indeed, the parts of the economy that are most exposed to non-euro-zone demand are doing better than those that rely on domestic spending.

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This is a particular worry in the euro zone, where countries and banks alike are heavily exposed to one another's debts.

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It has the biggest debt and deficit ratios among the euro zone's AAA-rated countries, and its banks are dangerously exposed to southern Europe.

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