The bond route also is unlikely to win favor, as companies need to repay debt when the bonds expire, and returns for investors don't mirror the heady IPO gains of the past.

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Why isn't Mexico undergoing the kind of heady expansion that China, India and many other rapidly advancing nations are experiencing?

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"It's his journey from this sort of heady instrument that he can't seem to get the hang of to this West African drum, the djembe, " McCarthy says.

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