Italy to Add Cocaine Sales, Prostitution to National GDP
You might not know this, but Italy’s economy has been in trouble lately. After being hit hard by the global recession, the country has operated in a deficit while watching its gross domestic product fall two percent since 2001.
But now Italian officials have an idea that may help. In order to close the deficit and boost the GDP numbers, Italy will now include prostitution and illegal drug sales when calculating those numbers, Bloomberg News reported.
From the report:
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So if you’re a fan of cocaine or sex workers (or both!), you can kill two birds with one stone by booking a trip to Italy and helping them out of an economic jam.
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