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Could the world cope with another oil price slump?

The recent drop in oil prices has raised the question of how the world economy would cope with a another sustained slump in prices. While some big oil producers would take a hit, and inflation would fall sharply, we suspect that global growth would be much less affected than it was last time around.

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