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Will the global recovery last the course this time?

After slowing in the final quarter of last year, the global economy appears to have made a strong start to 2012. But we suspect that a combination of fiscal austerity, weak consumer confidence and a deepening euro-zone crisis mean growth is likely to slow again later in the year.

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