News from 11/04/2009
2009; Gale Group;
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Niela Kleinsmith, Jon O'brien President, James Mcgrath, Michael Leo, Bjarte Vandvik Secretary-general, Dr Miguel A. MartÍnez-GonzÁlez Professor, Chris Anderson Editor-in-chief, Yu Yongding Director-general, Lloyd Trufelman,
ResumoThe Economist Louis Vuitton Cathay Pacific Contents Chevron Royal Bank of Canada The world this week Politics Business Philips Omega Igindex Safe without the bomb? Talking Turkey America, Europe and Turkey Banking on the fund The G20 and the IMF Awash in waste Water rights Messenger, shot Banks and accounting standards Bahrain Cfainstitute The challenge of AIDS Refugee status Subscribing to freemium China and the IMF Plane spotting A rush to judgment? The Economist CFA Institute Economistsubscriptions Rich pickings Online debate Other highlights Executive Focus Executive Focus Making a splash Netjets Malaysia International Islamic Financial Centre Bust in the boonies Local-government finances Less is more Council budgets Take this job and shovel it Allotments Trend Micro Time for a bruiser The Catholic church Korean Air Gordon's debt mountain The public finances Not so loony Teachers' foibles The never-ending story Expenses-gate Through a pint glass, darkly Death in the mountains An earthquake in Italy Friends by the Bosporus Turkey and Barack Obama Allies of a kind France and America Rasmussens abound Denmark's prime ministers Still afloat in the Baltic, just The troubled Baltics Shuffle, shuffle Spain's government A surfeit of leaders Two cheers and a jeer Barack Obama's foreign policy A daring punt Defence budget Killing for respect Oakland Prairie in the city Conservation A service nation Volunteering Slower than a speeding bullet Transport systems Wedding season Gay marriage Reflections on Virginia Tech The ghost at the conference table The Summit of the Americas An elected strongman brought to book The trial of Alberto Fujimori Revolutionary justice Venezuela's endangered democracy Kiss and kill Chagas disease The difficulty of trying to stop it happening ever again The genocide in Rwanda What if the president goes? Nigeria Fear of fragmentation Southern Sudan Where will they all go? Iranian dissidents in Iraq Press the button Getting paid in Iraq Out of the Tigers' cage Sri Lanka's war The slide downhill Pakistan's extremists Self-defence Afghanistan's new militias Where will all the students go? Chinese unemployment Taking the summit by strategy China and the G20 Banyan In the shade of the banyan tree Sin aqua non Water When glaciers start moving Climate change Flight of the locusts Activist investors General Motors' strange new prototype Big in America? Spanish companies Raising the stakes Energy in Japan The not-so-big four American broadcasting Trading licks Edible advertisements Heavy going European defence Face value Sauce of success Lombard Odier Mission: possible Held in reserve Special Drawing Rights Whistling in the dark Financial markets Buttonwood Spin and substance The cavalry of commerce Trade finance Sacred territory The Federal Reserve For I'm a jolly good fellow Indian banks A capital affair Japanese banks Stress testing Psychology and trading Economics focus Cycle-proof regulation Resistance is useless Malaria Biofools The environment The dawn of the animals Wired Neurology International Business Machines Meltdown Energy and climate change The Politics of Climate Change. By Anthony Giddens. Polity Press; 264 pages; £50. To be published in America by Polity next month The Global Deal: Climate Change and the Creation of a New Era of Progress and Prosperity. By Nicholas Stern. Public Affairs; 256 pages; $26.95. Published in Britain as "Blueprint for a Safer Planet"; The Bodley Head; £16.99 Sustainable Energy: Without the Hot Air. By David MacKay. UIT Cambridge; 384 pages; $49.95 and £45 Listening to the Islamists Islam and the West Resistance: The Essence of the Islamist Revolution. By Alastair Crooke. Pluto Press; 288 pages; $28.95 and £17.99 Engaging the Muslim World. By Juan Cole. Palgrave Macmillan; 288 pages; $26.95. To be published in Britain by Palgrave in May Lady in red Liberia This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa's First Woman President. By Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. HarperCollins; 368 pages; $26.99. To be published in Britain by Harper in May Crowded house Lessons from ants The Lives of Ants. By Laurent Keller and Elisabeth Gordon. Translated by James Grieve. Oxford University Press; 256 pages; $27.95 and £14.99 Woman on the edge English literature The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth: A Life. By Frances Wilson. Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 336 pages; $30. Faber and Faber; £18.99 Letting rip The baroque Helen Levitt Courses Courses Courses Courses Courses Courses Appointments Courses Appointments Appointments Announcements Business & Personal Overview The Economist poll of forecasters, April averages Output, prices and jobs The Economist commodity-price index Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates Dutch flower auctions* Markets The Economist Oracle
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