News from 18/04/2009
2009; Gale Group;
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Moorad Choudhry Professor, Mark Fredenburg, Mark Collins, James Goodwin, Andrew Leber, Mark Largess, Tim Deyzel, Gary Sheffer Executive director,
ResumoThe Economist GE HSBC Private Bank Contents Monsanto imagine The world this week Politics Business DHL Santander Africa's next Big Man India's jumbo election Democracy in India Payback time American banks Fixing health care Technology and medicine Building castles of sand Housing Lexus A conglomerate doing well Giving credit where its due German history Business incentives Witness for the prosecution City traveller By a leg All that hot air Economist Emerging from the wreckage with a smile Audio interview Other highlights Germany Trade & Invest Executive Focus Executive Focus Executive Focus Executive Focus Executive Focus Voting for the people's man Allianz The immigration superhighway Pakistan and Britain The camera is mightier than the sword Police brutality Netjets Underpowered Helping carmakers A turning point of sorts Housing market Bahrain Pity the young Student prospects Play up, play up Computer games An endless series of hobgoblins Scared Britain Tailspin Super-Sarkozy falls to earth France's president A movable border Italy and Switzerland An Aegean fog Greece's troubled government Clunk-clicked The German economy A Balkan state in balk Croatia and Europe Street scenes Protests in Moldova and Georgia The Peninsula Hotels Dragon nightmares All together now Immigration reform State of fear Earthquakes Back in the saddle The ex-president In Virginia's glowing hills Uranium mining Lightning strikes Moonshine Boeing Pipettes at the ready North Carolina Perfect pitch Musical diplomacy It's all relative Statewatch: Iowa Obama derangement syndrome It takes two to rumba Cuba and the United States Fasting and dealing Bolivia's Evo Morales What's hot, green and Mexican? Mexico and climate change Garanti Dancing with the bear Brazil and climate change Cambridge Judge Business School Warwick Business School Perils of the sea Piracy off Somalia A clear and present danger Piracy in the Gulf of Guinea They really don't like each other Egypt versus Hizbullah Too big to fail Congo's faltering economy Dousing the flames Thailand's political crisis Puppet show Fiji's constitutional coup One winner, many losers Indonesia's election results Will patients be rewarded? Health care in China Free for now Dialysis in China The untouchable and the unattainable India's election Banyan The trouble with the king There was a lawyer, an engineer and a politician.. . Selection bias in politics Ontario Shell Lessons from a frugal innovator Health care in India Salvaging the truth Business in India Dicing with debt MGM Mirage Playing a new game Nintendo Trois strikes and you're out Internet regulation in France It's the economy, stupid Business in Iraq Face value Keeper of the flame Autonomy Shelter, or burden? The audacity of hope Banks Buckle down The world economy Too little, and late Germany's bail-out Central planning Brazil's development bank Wakey wakey Municipal bonds Googling the future Economic indicators Bamboo shoots of recovery China's economy Economics focus The curse of politics Genius locus Autism and extraordinary ability Incognito Conscious and unconscious thought Twice blessed Language and cognition Going wrong South Africa South Africa's Brave New World: The Beloved Country Since the End of Apartheid. By R. W. Johnson. Allen Lane; 702 pages; £25 After the Party: Corruption, the ANC and South Africa's Uncertain Future. By Andrew Feinstein. Verso; 301 pages; $26.95 and £14.99 Bring Me My Machine Gun: The Battle for the Soul of South Africa, from Mandela to Zuma. By Alec Russell. PublicAffairs; 336 pages; $26.95. Published in Britain as "After Mandela: The Battle for the Soul of South Africa"; Hutchinson; £18.99 The choice facing Muslims Islam The Crisis of Islamic Civilisation. By Ali A. Allawi. Yale University Press; 304 pages; $27.50 and £18.99 Bare-knuckled capitalism Tycoons The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt. By T. J. Stiles. Knopf; 736 pages; $37.50 Cradle of capitalism Renaissance Florence The Economy of Renaissance Florence. By Richard A. Goldthwaite. Johns Hopkins University Press; 672 pages; $55 and £28.50 Hell is other people Australian painting Fairweather. By Murray Bail. Murdoch Books; 280 pages; £50 Maurice Jarre Courses Courses Courses Courses Courses Courses Courses Courses Courses Appointments Appointments Appointments Business & Personal Overview New Zealand Output, prices and jobs The Economist commodity-price index Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates House prices Markets The Economist Patek Philippe The Economist Philips Also in this section Medicine goes digital Economist HIT or miss The digitisation of medical records is getting closer Flying blind Digital medicine will improve medical care—and possibly revive drug discovery too Getting personal The promise of cheap genome sequencing A doctor in your pocket Developing countries are using mobile phones to leapfrog to personalised medicine Fantastic Voyage Technology is making health care more portable, precise and personal Health 2.0 How far can interactive digital medicine go? Economist
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