News from 15/05/2010
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Julian Swearengin, Kjell Bergh, Annemarie Robson, Oliver Wood-Clark, Candies Litsey, Luke Ryan, Bruno Leipold, Peter Duncan Managing director, Tony Fahey,
ResumoThe Economist Bahrain Contents Intel Jaguar The world this week Politics Business Huawei GE imagination Hublot Britain's accidental revolution No going back The euro and the future of Europe The wrecking of Venezuela Hugo Chávez's government DHL The winners' dilemma Banks in emerging markets A bad idea… Banning the burqa Accenture Royal Bank of Canada Don't shoot the messenger Barack Obama's rant against technology A new kind of politics? EADS Defining disability Managing whales The best policy A truly global city Space oddity Economist Online highlights Blackrock Executive Focus Executive Focus Executive Focus Executive Focus Executive Focus Lombard Odier Feeling the heat International Business Machines A not very odd couple The new coalition government Learning how to share Lessons from abroad Sprucing up democracy Political reform Emerging from the shadow Labour's future Why Cameron coalesced Electoral trends Good news, for hobbits Financial regulation BASF Finis The Tube upgrade deals BASF The love-in Santander EDF Now what? Angela Merkel's chancellorship Grand, traffic-light or red-red-green? North Rhine-Westphalia's election Sex, lies and video Turkey's opposition Internet Explorer Euro not bust The Baltic states At least it's not Greece Ireland's economy Standard Bank Centrifugal forces Italian politics McDonald's Financial fortress Europe McDonald's Zurich Lame ducks no longer Argentina's ruling couple Plus ça change The EU-Latin America summit The "people's army" under siege Guerrillas in Paraguay Cracking the Kagan code The Supreme Court Hug them tight America and Afghanistan Once more unto the breach The climate-change bill Still spilling Deepwater Horizon Tea-party on Utah's primary The perils of being small Jobs and businesses God and times tables Schools and religion In praise of Boise Stop-gap or long-term leader? Nigeria's new president Who profits most? South Africa's World Cup Desert menace Al-Qaeda in west Africa An inevitably edgy start Israel and Palestine The real thing Salafists in Gaza The puritans won't give up Egypt's culture wars Some mother's son The Philippines' next president Thaksin's harvest Thailand's north-east Sodomy, the sequel Malaysia's opposition leader on trial In ruddy health Australia's economy Lone madmen without guns The carnage in China's schools A nation's bouncers Japanese immigration policy Troubled transition Kyrgyzstan's interim government Banyan The elusive fruits of inclusive growth Running for cover Women and veils Beyond the burqa Headgear in Muslim lands A clouded future Work in the digital age Nay on pay Rewarding American bosses Hands up for handouts State aid proliferates in Europe Pedals of fire China's electric-bicycle boom Short-term memory gain SAP attempts a comeback Solow Building Company Relapse Health insurance in America Blowout India's oil and gas industry Emergency repairs Barclays Capital Doing the hokey-cokey Financial markets A few minutes of mayhem America's stockmarket plunge High hopes, low returns Asian IPOs The other vampires Credit-rating agencies Maul street The Senate financial-reform bill The fear of all sums Subprime borrowing and innumeracy High stakes The IMF and the euro-zone rescue Economics focus From ships to bits Light without logic Optical computing's bright future To catch a thief Spotting video piracy Wonderful life goes on Unusual fossils Infectious personalities Epidemiology Getting better all the time Innovation in history The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves. By Matt Ridley. Harper; 448 pages; $26.99. Fourth Estate; £20 Inky fingers New fiction The Imperfectionists. By Tom Rachman. Dial Press; 272 pages; $25. Quercus; £16.99 Fall guy Iran in the 20th century Iran and the CIA: The Fall of Mossadeq Revisited. By Darioush Bayandor. Palgrave Macmillan; 272 pages; $33 and £20 An old idea refashioned Global universities The Great Brain Race: How Global Universities Are Reshaping the World. By Ben Wildavsky. Princeton University Press; 248 pages; $26.95 and £18.95 Boys in blue Britain and the second world war The Battle of Britain: Five Months That Changed History, May-October 1940. By James Holland. Bantam Press; 677 pages; £25 A monkey out of Macbeth New opera Avigdor Arikha Courses Courses Courses Courses Courses Courses Appointments Courses Appointments Travel Tenders Tenders Tenders Business & Personal Overview Taxing wages Output, prices and jobs The Economist commodity-price index Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates Global OTC derivatives Markets The Economist Oracle The Economist Standard Chartered Also in this section Economist They might be giants The bigger and bigger picture The developing world's banks are flourishing Caja Madrid Rambo in cuffs Balance-sheets are less powerful than they look Domestic duties CCB, China's second-biggest bank, exemplifies the size of the task at home Mutually assured existence Public and private banks have reached a modus vivendi We lucky few For Western firms the barriers to entry into emerging-market banking are daunting Breaking and entering Why it is hard to copy Santander Luxembourg School of Finance Tepper Luxembourg School of Finance Old friends only To do well in China, Western banks need a long history All the world's a stage But emerging-market banks are still treading cautiously abroad A door to Africa Standard Bank reaps the benefit of bold thinking Cross your fingers Emerging-market banks have done remarkably well, but they need all the luck they can get Economist Hitachi North east england
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