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Moralists have long suspected that money is the root of all evil, but now it seems that evil is the root of all money.

Economists in the United States have found that countries with a wide belief in hell are less corrupt and more prosperous than those without.

According to a report into wealth by the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis, religion proved to be just as reliable a marker as productivity and investment levels. The report, entitled Fear of Hell Might Fire Up The Economy, studied the economies of 35 countries, including the US, Ireland, Japan, India and Turkey.

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