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Monday, 3 November, 2008, 20:00 GMT

Confused about endowment mortgages, the globalisation debate or what caused Japan's recession?

Choose from a category below to read BBC News Online's lowdown on key business issues.

How falling stock markets affect you
BBC News Online explains why the markets affect pretty much everyone, even people who don't own any shares.

Derivatives - a simple guide
Oil markets explained
Dow Jones milestones
Q&A: What is a City analyst?
Market crashes through the ages

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Debate: Globalisation - good or bad?
Does the spread of globalisation and rise of worldwide companies help or hinder world development?

Q&A: The pros and cons of debt relief
A century of free trade
The argument for free trade
Africa's development plan
Q&A: What hope is G8 offering Africa?

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Q&A: Argentina's economic crisis
BBC News Online examines how a country lauded in the mid-1990s as an economic miracle could have descended into chaos.

What caused Japan's recession?
Q&A: Brazil's $30bn lifeline
An A-Z of money laundering
Q&A: What is GDP?
How the economy is measured

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The facts about UK manufacturing
BBC News Online provides some facts and figures to shed light on the debate about the long-term survival of British manufacturing.

Q&A: The UK's euro timetable
How bad is the UK's pension crisis?
Q&A: Is the house price boom over?
What are Public Private Partnerships?

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The lowdown on student loans
The BBC's Working Lunch guides you through the expensive business of borrowing money to go to university.

Understanding different mortgage types
Q&A: Endowment mortgage shortfall
How can I manage my debt?
How low interest rates affect you
What are stakeholder pensions?
The lowdown on final salary pension schemes

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An overview of consumer rights
So you feel hard done by as a consumer, but where can you complain and what are your rights?

Picking the right mobile phone
Q&A: How do I buy travel insurance?
Dealing with redundancy
Q&A: Air passengers' rights
Need career advice?
Q&A: Moving your mortgage
Q&A: Switching energy supplier
Buy-to-let winners and losers

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Explained: the IMF and World Bank
The IMF and the World Bank were established in 1944 and designed to achieve different but complementary ends.

Opec: The oil cartel
What is the World Trade Organization?
The powers of the European Central Bank
OECD: What is it and what does it do?
The CBI: The Voice of Business

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How do mergers happen?
Hostile takeovers, white knights and dawn raids can all be part of the merger process. BBC News Online unpicks the jargon.

Q&A: Bankruptcy made simple
Wall Street scandals at a glance
What do venture capitalists do?
Why firms bother to restructure


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