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International consultants PricewaterhouseCoopers has released the results of its biennial global economic survey, based on thousands of interviews with senior executives, casting light on trends in economic crime. According to the report, global economic crime has grown substantially since 2003's result - an 8 percentage point increase. Most notable, worldwide, has been the increase of fraud. How has the Czech Republic fared? More

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Jan Svejnar is one of the most respected economists the Czech Republic has produced. An adviser to former president Vaclav Havel, Mr Svejnar is a professor at the University of Michigan's business school and heads an American-style PhD programme and research centre at Prague's Charles University. I caught up with the economist recently in Prague to discuss both present and past events, including how Jan Svejnar left Czechoslovakia two years after the Soviet invasion of 1968. He was just 17 at the time, just shy of his high school diploma. More