If differences in prices among countries are taken into account, its share of world GDP has gone from 26% in 1990 to 38% in 2007.

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If completed, the deal will mark the end of a high-profile association that has been marred by growing differences between the Bakrie family and Nathaniel Rothschild, the co-founder of Bumi.

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