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The mystification of female sexuality and that of her genitalia often renders sex as mere masturbation in the vagina.

Countries may go bust but they don't go out of business. The results can be drastic. In 1980s, Romanians had to suffer with infrastructure difficulties when the debt had to be paid off.

The anglophone and scandinavian countries are "default" virgins according to the authors' data.

Levels of domestic borrowing, as a whole, increased significantly at the turn of 21st century. The thresholds for external debt have fallen significantly - making foreign debt a lot easier.

In the commentary on institutional failing, the access to credit facilities seems less important. What is more of the determinant is the set of factors like levels of , governance efficiency etc. Another problem ignored by the access-to-markets arguments is that capital inflows to EM is largely procyclical.

More than 50% of the crises seem to have occurred below the debt/gdp ratio of 60%.

Crises have occurred in emerging markets with debt/gdp ratios much lower than Maastricht's requirement of 60%.

It's important to know that the Mexican crisis was one based on domestic debt.

Zimbabwe had the largest deflation and Argentina the biggest default. Inflation and Default are one of the few measures to define financial crises. The thresholds are not as hard-set.

An into with how recent our genus has been (3.5 m years) and how humanity would have started in the sub-saharan Africa. The discussed various language groups in Africa out of which the Egyptian civilization would have arisen from.

Land redistribution actually caused dependence on foreign food in Kerala.

India's debt was actually forgiven at the end of WWII - and it was left with credit.

The issues with native acceptance of MNCs have existed primarily because MNCs have been too powerful when compared to native institutions (whether it be the higher salary or mobility of capital they offer).

Lall and Streeten also admit that a clear answer for MNC's effect on development goals wasn't possible.

Lall and Streeten find in their study for UNCTAD that MNCs don't differ significantly from how indigenous companies operate.

Deng's open door strategy helped China get more easier loans from the World Bank. Chinese diaspora has had significant control in South-East Asia.

Mao's was a a vision of decentralized control - he clearly stated not to take Russia's top-down approach. Agrarian challenge has become tougher in China and extreme poverty has persisted. Communist party's market democracy has survived because all else has failed.