Istat gets Ig-Nobel prize for GDP crime

(ANSA) - Rome, September 19 - Istat's lead role in the European statistics agencies' drive to include prostitution, drugs and other crime in GDP has earned it an Ig-Nobel Prize.
    Italy got another of the annual spoof awards from Harvard's Annals of Improbable Research, for a Bari university team's measurement of the "painkilling" power of art.