News from 21/11/2009
2009; Gale Group;
Autores
Todd Weiler, Steven Mains, Colin Lynch, John Bongaarts Vice-president, David Camroux Senior lecturer, Mauricio RodrÍguez MÚnera, Eric Callway, Micheal Danagher,
ResumoThe Economist Chevron Louis Vuitton Contents Rolex Hp The world this week Politics Business Georgia ExxonMobil How to feed the world Dealing with America's fiscal hole The deficit problem Credit Suisse The Pacific (and pussyfooting) president Barack Obama in Asia Last, do no harm The end of the Labour government Mandarin Oriental A defective directive Fund managers' pay Bahrain Population booms, and busts Colombia's peace process Shades of green Behind the wall Riposteship Economist Assessing the next decade The World in 2010 Covidien Other highlights Executive Focus Executive Focus Executive Focus Executive Focus IG Index Stemming the tide Invest A last resort The pros and cons of VAT Merrill Lynch Boeing The great calculating machine Gordon Brown's next six months A one-trick bill Reforming financial regulation And is there honey still for tea? University students abroad Metro-net Municipal Wi-Fi Nice guys may finish first The Conservatives' media policy Better up north Financing Scottish start-ups Verizonbusiness Now, worry about the upturn Lending to small companies Clariden Leu I Know my rights One world Carbon Trust Weighed down Europe's public finances Arithmetic lesson Greek public finances Archangel Gabriel takes the burden Germany's Social Democrats NatWest The mayors' revolt Municipal politics in France Heading south Slovakia's murky politics International Business Machines BMW Not just Hitler's fool History of Italian fascism Who's on the phone? Turkey's phone-tapping scandal Lombard Odier A new balance in Europe Let's agree to agree America, China and climate change Waiting (and waiting) for a plan Barack Obama and Afghanistan Daiwa Capital Markets Trials to come After Guantánamo What to teach? Improving education Philips The job almost no one wants The New Orleans mayor's race Something new Maine's cod Sarah Palin reloads A different kind of recession Mexico's economy Resistant to sticks and carrots Cuba and the United States Pictet Funds Socked British Columbia's salmon Messing around with dams Peru and Brazil A regional cockpit Iraq and its neighbours Pity those caught in the middle Yemen's war Democracy under threat Congo's constitution A mortal enemy Sierra Leone's corruption problem Less poor, less free Hope and worry in Zambia Scaling the Asian wall Barack Obama in Asia Taming the mafia state Afghanistan's anti-corruption drive Softly, softly Hong Kong's deferred democracy Better late than never Australia's child-migration horror General intentions Sri Lanka's retired army chief The thriller for Manila A hero for the Philippines Banyan Land of Eastern promise If words were food, nobody would go hungry Feeding the world How to store and sell more stuff Food markets Nuclear contamination EDF Class war A spat among professional networks Protection racket The psychology of warranties Explosive growth LNG expands in Australia Talk is cheap Counterfeit handsets proliferate in China Ungreasing the wheels The global crackdown on corporate bribery The rot spreads Corporate crime is on the rise Schumpeter Remembering Drucker The parable of the sower Qatar A yuan-sided argument China's exchange-rate policy Buttonwood Something's gotta give Ossie's casino Rebuilding UBS Payback time Fund management Savings and groans Spanish banks The state's take Public-sector finances Economics focus Green with envy Zurich ZTE Calling all cars Vehicle telemetry Arousing interest Sex and pharmaceuticals Changing tides Tuna fishing In wolf's clothing Conservation A chequered history Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia: The State That Failed. By Mary Heimann. Yale University Press; 406 pages; $45 and £25 Little girls, big story A child in communist Hungary Enemies of the People: My Family's Journey to America. By Kati Marton. Simon & Schuster; 288 pages; $26 No plain Jane English literature A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen. Edited by Susannah Carson. Random House; 320 pages; $25 Ad majorem Dei gloriam Henry V, English hero 1415: Henry V's Year of Glory. By Ian Mortimer. Bodley Head; 640 pages; £20 The man in the Panama hat A diarist dissected James Lees-Milne: The Life. By Michael Bloch. John Murray; 400 pages; £25 Turkish delight Orhan Pamuk The Museum of Innocence. By Orhan Pamuk. Translated by Maureen Freely. Knopf; 542 pages; $28.95. To be published in Britain by Faber and Faber in January 2010 Escaping from hell New cinema: Lee Daniels's "Precious" Robert Rines Courses Courses Courses Courses Appointments Courses Appointments Appointments Property Tenders Tenders Business & Personal Overview Vehicle-scrapping subsidies Output, prices and jobs The Economist commodity-price index Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates R&D spending Markets Santander Patek Philippe
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