The big exception is France, which has suffered far less than most other rich countries.
That may point to the industry's future in America, Britain and other rich countries.
By the standards of other rich countries, the British economy is doing well in difficult circumstances.
But in relative terms, Canada is doing rather better than most other rich countries.
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Consumer loans dominate turf that is shared in other rich countries with overdrafts and credit-card debt.
Such returns are far juicier than retail banks are enjoying in many other rich countries.
It looks progressive relative to other rich countries only because consumption taxes elsewhere are regressive.
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For Britain now has a higher proportion of single-parent families than most other rich countries (see chart).
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The report also showed high commuting flows for British workers compared with those in other rich countries.
What is certain, however, is that America, along with other rich countries, does have large unfunded liabilities.
The trouble is that living standards are already dropping compared with other rich countries, so Japan feels poorer.
European schools must now compete for brains not only with other rich countries but also with emerging markets.
But if it is to compete globally, it must avoid the trap that other rich countries have fallen into.
Other rich countries cover almost all their citizens in one of two ways.
Japan is an extreme example, but many other rich countries have similar problems.
Eventually, interactive robots are going to become more common, not just in Japan but in other rich countries as well.
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Yet the opposite has happened in America, Britain and other rich countries where inequality has risen over the past 30 years.
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Sweden, with an admirable history of taking in refugees, has welcomed 23, 600 Iraqis, but few other rich countries have followed suit.
While most other rich countries chose to make betting on horse-racing a state monopoly, Britain legalised private bookies in the 1960s.
That need not necessarily mean a scheme financed mainly out of taxation, of the sort found in most other rich countries.
But although the crime rate remains well below that of other rich countries, it has been rising over the past seven years.
Americans refuse to believe that other rich countries have laws at all.
The world's financial troubles may have been triggered by America's housing bust, but it is other rich countries that are hurting most.
NHS's basic cost efficiency: it delivers health care of surprisingly high quality at far lower cost than other rich countries have managed.
Lenders have a right to be repaid, but this makes its net contribution look far less impressive than that of other rich countries.
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Unlike other rich countries, Japan does not have a consolidated tax system in which companies in a group are taxed as a single unit.
But he has half a point when he argues that race relations in Britain are at least as good as in most other rich countries.
But in most other rich countries the water business is still run either by the state or by private firms too small to compete internationally.
Even after years of austerity, taxes and government spending still swallow up a bigger share of output in the Nordic region than in most other rich countries.
Last week, Mr Brown said he will, in effect, service 10% of poor countries' loans for them and called on other rich countries to do their share.
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