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Basel close-out netting requirements: systematically preferring the free allocation of capital among Western countries over developing countries, despite a want of any evidence that netting contracts are any less effective in non-netting countries than they are where you do have a clean opinion.[1] There are 27/27 netting jurisdictions in the European Union, 18/20 of the G20, but just 2/54 in Africa, one of which is in the G20 (South Africa) and the other of which is an island where lots of Western people go on holiday (Mauritius).

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  1. I know, I know: an absence of evidence is not the same as evidence of absence — but there is no evidence of presence either.