News from 26/09/2009
2009; Gale Group;
Autores
Craig Willy, Sharona Muir, Richard Woods, Guillaume Rocher, John Campbell, Barbara Karl, Ben Hughes, Dorothee Heisenberg,
ResumoThe Economist Chevron Cartier Contents Taj Qatar The world this week Politics Business Samsung Hublot Where the axe should fall The power of mobile money Telecoms A deal that stinks Opel and Magna The quantity theory of foreign policy America abroad No time for Barack Obama to give up Israel, Palestine and the Jewish settlements Georgia Avoiding a crash at Copenhagen Climate change Renault No demographic time bomb Failure is an option Retirement plans War stories Medical horrors Cultural vandalism Economist Total Kaust Veiled threats Online video Covidien Other highlights Executive Focus Executive Focus Executive Focus Executive Focus Allianz Deflating the state Korean Air Bahrain Boeing Making them happen Tory plans for schools Badge of honour? School uniforms Subtraction Nuclear deterrent No publicity is good publicity The Liberal Democrats at conference Theory and practice Assisted suicide Bashing Auntie The BBC under fire Flybmi The history wars IG Index Pictet Funds Victim or villain? France's Clearstream trial Cowen grates Ireland and the Lisbon treaty The sultan and the vizier Silvio Berlusconi under fire EDF The final furlong Germany's federal election Verizonbusiness Feeling a bit fragile Baltic economies Back from the brink Hungary's economy The Royal Bank of Scotland A commission report-card Skyteam E. on Reinforcing failure? The Afghanistan war Fine words Climate change at the UN International Business Machines A mere 564 amendments Health reform Lame duck David New York Swiss E1 Paso's small step Drugs and the border Pass, punt, PASPA Gambling in Delaware Stuck in the Delta Water in California The speechwriter's revenge Zelaya swaps exile for embassy Honduras's power struggle Lawless roads Mexico's southern border The Economist The perpetual campaign Canada's deadlocked politics His own worst enemy Law and politics in Colombia A catastrophe is looming East Africa's drought Still on a roll South Africa's president A sorry saga that keeps on running South Africa's controversial athlete Deterring foreign investors Iraq and its oil Off the hook, for now Israel and its West Bank settlements Let the rising sunlight in The press and politics in Japan V not yet for victory Vietnam's rebounding economy Not even asking Taiwan and the United Nations Thugs templar Thailand's rowdy royalists Monumental ambition India's dalit chief minister Don't need a weatherman… Afghanistan's electoral debacle Banyan Without FEER or favour Shooting down a plan New missile defences in Europe Leave the hard bits till last Russian and American arms cuts Ring quartet The Olympic games Dynasty and durability European family firms in the recession Public morals and private property An assault on online piracy in China The rights of bits America insists on net neutrality ICANN be independent Regulating the internet DHL The English patient Trying times for El Corte Inglés Almost virtuous Airlines pledge to cut emissions Moravia Convention Bureau The Economist Artificial success The fad for functional foods Schumpeter The pedagogy of the privileged A place in society Standard Bank Liquid fuel The rally in financial markets Buttonwood Chucking the buck Skyteam Ready to blow? Wells Fargo And the loser is… The search for America's worst investor Mercedes-Benz Recovery ward RBS and Lloyds An old dawn Shizuka Kamei Fiscal iceberg Governments' contingent liabilities Bogged down Financial reform in America Economics focus Much ado about multipliers Last gasp for the forest Paying to save trees Bringing beauty and beast into the drawing room Anish Kapoor Rights and wrongs First principles of justice Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? By Michael J. Sandel. Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 320 pages; $25. Allen Lane; £14.99 Let's look at the facts A biography of Louis Brandeis Louis D. Brandeis: A Life. By Melvin Urofsky. Pantheon Books; 976 pages; $40 Distilled history Israel and Palestine without peace Israel and Palestine: Reappraisals, Revisions, Refutations. By Avi Shlaim. Verso; 320 pages; $34.95 and £16.99 Nations without a cause Central Asia's five stans Inside Central Asia: A Political and Cultural History of Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkey, and Iran. By Dilip Hiro. Overlook; 480 pages; $35. Duckworth; £25 Getting close to a doomed god Moctezuma at the British Museum Irving Kristol Courses Courses Courses Courses Courses Courses Courses Appointments Fellowships Appointments Appointments Appointments Conferences Appointments Fellowships Tenders Business & Personal Announcements Tenders Overview Asian GDP growth forecasts Output, prices and jobs The Economist commodity-price index Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates Unemployment benefits Markets Clinton Global Initiative IPhone 3G The Economist SES Also in this section Mobile marvels Economist Eureka moments How a luxury item became a tool of global development The mother of invention Network operators in the poor world are cutting costs and increasing access in innovative ways Up, up and Huawei China has made huge strides in network equipment Beyond voice New uses for mobile phones could launch another wave of development Finishing the job Mobile-phone access will soon be universal. The next task is to do the same for the internet Economist Siemens
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