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Is CEO pay out of control?

By economist.com

Edward McBride brings in business affairs editor Andrew Palmer to reflect on the ever growing pay packets of company bosses. Also, Max Rodenbeck reports from Delhi on the resignation of India's central bank governor Raghuram Rajan, and health care correspondent Natasha Loder explains how big data could mean big returns for investors in genomics

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