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Business Daily: Bunga-Bunga and Wonga-Wonga

20/10/2011

Bunga-Bunga and Wonga-Wonga

BBC World Service - Business Daily, Bunga-Bunga and Wonga-Wonga

Why it is that wonga-wonga not bunga-bunga, is upsetting Italians.

Why it is that wonga-wonga not bunga-bunga, is upsetting Italians. Also, why the gangs of heavily armed kidnappers shouldn't worry holidaymakers in Kenya.

Forget the bunga-bunga sex scandal, it is the wonga-wonga that is worrying most ordinary Italians - the country's vast government debt. 

So why aren't the Italians taking to the streets as the Greeks are? 

A question Justin Rowlatt puts to Professor Fiorella Kostoris, an economist at Rome University. 

Also, why the gangs of heavily armed kidnappers shouldn't worry holidaymakers in Kenya

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