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Business travel, which used to represent $1.5 trillion a year (about 1.7% of world GDP) has slowed to a trickle. But in a new report based on anonymized and aggregated Mastercard data, researchers find that the economic impact will extend far beyond lost airline and hospitality jobs, because it will also lead to a substantial decline in the transfer of knowledge.

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