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The authors would like to thank the CORE editors who invited them to write this Insight and provided helpful suggestions and feedback.
CORE is grateful to Sam Glendenning, Simran Krishna-Rogers, and Elena Xu for their valuable feedback.
Header image credit: Italian bond issued in France to finance a railway in Italy: Courtesy of Ugo Panizza
