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Greenwich Associates, another, found that 32% of European institutions invested in hedge funds last year, up from 23% in 2003; and 43% said that they wanted to boost the figure in 2005.The rumour that BT's pension fund was considering putting up to 10% of its £30 billion ($54 billion) of assets into alternative investments such as hedge funds made headlines in Britain this week.

A slew of factors could boost the figure.

However, extra dates will boost the figure, as will the last-chance aspect driving up ticket prices.

With the help of partners such as UNICEF and the non-governmental organization Plan Bangladesh, the government is endeavouring to boost the figure substantially.

The return of Glastonbury and the Rolling Stones to Hyde Park this summer is likely to boost the figures this year.

The recent Black Friday and Cyber Monday shenanigans could well boost the figures, but may well have just brought Christmas sales forward.

This government has already tried to boost the figures by now including war pensions in the figures and even mooting the inclusion of intelligence budgets to game the stats still further.

A surge in consumer spending, helped by falling energy prices, boosted the figure.

Unofficial trade boosts the figure, but it is still pathetic for countries with populations of 1.2 billion and 180m respectively, and combined economies of over $2 trillion.

In Britain the annual growth rate is higher (6.4% in December), but David Owen, an economist at Jefferies International, estimates that quantitative easing (QE), whereby central banks create money to buy assets, has been boosting the figure by an annualised rate of 10%.

These aren't just avatar items and XP boosts; the figure also refers to full-game downloads and downloadable content (DLC) to enhance console games.