News from 21/02/2009
2009; Gale Group;
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Duncan Green, Jonathan Moreland Director, Sean Maloney Executive vice-president, JosÉ Sarney President, Cho Jin-Seo, Heini Lippuner, John Earle,
ResumoThe Economist Louis Vuitton Contents Thomson Reuters UBS The world this week Politics Business Air New Zealand Hublot The collapse of manufacturing Flying blind Debris in space No time to lose Saudi reforms A strategy for avoiding defeat Fighting the Taliban Argentina on the Danube? Eastern Europe Flybmi José Sarney Holding the board to account Privatisation and mortality Closing the digital divide Business methods in Japan Flood warning Economist Dying to speak out Video Other highlights Credit Suisse Executive Focus Executive Focus Executive Focus Executive Focus Executive Focus Executive Focus Executive Focus Executive Focus In the face of chaos Boots on the ground Afghanistan and Pakistan Allianz Tough justice The Home Office Thanks, Gordon Lloyds Banking Group Point of no return? Labour's predicament Competing visions Reforming primary education Translating eduspeak Government jargon Lukewarm localism Conservative policy Hitting the buffers Railways The spiral of ignorance Macquarie Carbon Trust Stalled factories and fireside chats Russia Default options Ukraine's economic slump Silvio's good week Italy Malaysia International Islamic Financial Centre Scandals as bitter as a traitor's kiss Spain's opposition Not-so-safe havens Tax havens Barclays Capital Unruly neighbours The ungovernable state California's crisis Can't pay or won't pay? The foreclosure plan Who counts? The politics of the census Very little house on the prairie Small homes The hope of the party Louisiana's Bobby Jindal Curveballs Baseball Now, to work Statewatch: Illinois The end of innocence Chávez for ever? Venezuela's term-limits referendum The new Somoza Political tension in Nicaragua Stimulating Chile's economy Unhappy islanders The restless Caribbean A clean plate Mexico's ceramics industry Not yet unity Zimbabwe Tiptoeing towards reform Saudi Arabia A would-be happy link with Syria Israel and the Golan Heights Not so happy Iraq and its Kurds An unusual new friendship Iraq's Kurds and Turkey Hillary says hello to Asia American diplomacy in Asia Cold medicine Japan's crashing economy Pretend you're a Westerner China's rural consumers What the doctor ordered Malaysian politics Evil and the law Cambodia's Khmers Rouges on trial The Tigers' lair Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers Turning their backs on the world Globalisation Women and children worst Civilians in war zones In pieces The American car industry A thousand cries of pain German manufacturing A new look Fashion Just add water Starbucks Liberty Media gets Sirius Satellite radio Tycoons in the ascendant Business in Hong Kong Outsourcing as you sleep Hotels Face value In a deep hole Time to change the act Less than 300 Days Howzat! Financial fraud Buttonwood Debtors' prison The ties that bind Eastern European banks Reasons to be cheerful, Part 1 China's economy Reasons to be cheerful, Part 2 America's economy Trickle-down economics Remittances Economics focus Full disclosure What's cooking? The American Association for the Advancement of Science Basic information Neanderthal genetics A handwaving approach to arithmetic Education The lonely planet guide Exobiology The long and the short and the tall Dog breeds A paean to the female pen Women's literature in America A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx. By Elaine Showalter. Knopf; 608 pages; $30 Full of grace Virgin Mary Mother of God: A History of the Virgin Mary. By Miri Rubin. Allen Lane; 400 pages; £30. To be published in America by Yale University Press at the end of next month Poignant Punjab Fiction from Pakistan In Other Rooms, Other Wonders. By Daniyal Mueenuddin. Norton; 249 pages; $23.95. To be published in Britain by Bloomsbury in April Tales of old Oral history in China China Witness: Voices from a Silent Generation. By Xinran. Pantheon; 448 pages; $28.95. Chatto & Windus; £20 Crackling wire of menace "The Winter's Tale" Silken splendour New exhibitions Alison Des Forges Courses Courses Courses Appointments Courses Property Appointments Appointments Tenders Tenders Appointments Business & Personal Tenders Overview Slovakia Output, prices and jobs The Economist commodity-price index Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates Aid Markets Singapore HSBC Private Bank
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