Aside from pure monetary donations, however, is a new model that is transforming corporate philanthropy.

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Is the range-bound Linden Dollar of Second Life the future model of virtual currency and virtual monetary policy?

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No model in the world can prevent a financial bubble if monetary policy is too lax, or a recession if it is too tight.

ECONOMIST: Glittering economic prizes

One lesson is that getting monetary and fiscal policies right may be even more important than picking the best economic model.

ECONOMIST: Glittering economic prizes

At the weekend Mr Lanovy rejected the Yavlinsky model as 'another effort to force upon us a single financial and monetary system'.

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Brazil was one of the first to successfully scrap the old Washington Consensus model of debt service and budget cuts, paying off its loans with the International Monetary Fund in the first few years of the Lula presidency.

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