News from 21/08/2010
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Evan Conceicao, Ronald Mckinnon Professor, Andrew Mitchell, Janet Annesley Vice president, Derek E. Barrett, Sir Peter Hall Professor, Tom O'brien, Eric Freeman, Jerome Zukosky,
ResumoThe Economist Bahrain Contents HSBC The world this week Politics Business Lexus Contest of the century After the deluge Floods in Pakistan Clunkers in space The problem of orbiting debris Government Motors no more General Motors Less pomp and circumstance Private equity Standard Bank Yuan appreciation Crude arguments On hallowed ground Law in America Interfering abroad Counting sheep Economist Online highlights The Economist Executive Focus A Himalayan rivalry Great aspirations Fairness and the coalition The bombs of August Northern Ireland An ever-upward spiral A-level results From him that hath shall be taken Train fares Nissan Far from victimless Parking fines World Food Programme On equality Georgia's mental revolution Georgia Slinging dirt Italian politics The great mediator Turkish foreign policy Border burden Illegal immigration in Greece A sainted discovery Bulgarian relics The right stuff Mitch Daniels The never-ending swansong Rod Blagojevich on trial Return of the prizefighter Nevada's Senate race A turn for the worse Trade figures End of the lines Public transport Amending the amendment Citizenship and "birth tourism" The air-conditioned Puritan Happy-go-lucky Cristina Argentina's economy Shooting gallery Crime in Venezuela Will he, won't he? Nigeria's coming election Clean them up Congo's conflict minerals Hard to get out Iraq's oil Talk of talks The Israel-Palestine peace process The last of the Jewish Arabs Yemen's dwindling Jews The child in time Rethinking China's one-child policy Fixing the unfixable Afghanistan's troubled national army Mamas without borders Hong Kong's baby-boom Rebuilding, but at a cost Sri Lanka's post-war recovery Duty calls South Korea talks of unification A new day beckons, sort of Myanmar's politics and economy Banyan No sign of a rainbow Not on my beach, please Wind energy and politics Making the earth move Rising from the ashes in Detroit General Motors' IPO Talk is cheap Mobile phones in South-East Asia From Russia with bandwidth 4G mobile networks Billions of throats Beer in Asia You gonna buy that? Shocking new accounting rules How to tell when your boss is lying Corporate psychology Watching China whizz by Japan as number three Schumpeter The eclipse of the public company A bull market in pessimism Government bonds Super model Bank-capital rules Circular logic Chinese banks Wiggle it. Just a little bit China's currency Money pit Ireland's banking mess Boxing clever Freight derivatives Survival of the richest Finance after the crisis Economics focus Paper chains Junk science The problem of space pollution Watts up? Energy conservation War dividend Fisheries biology Too good to live Psychology When the myths are blown away Social change in Japan Contemporary Japan: History, Politics and Social Change Since the 1980s. By Jeff Kingston. Wiley-Blackwell; 328 pages; $89.95 Who killed the Soviet economy? Historical detection Red Plenty: Industry! Progress! Abundance! Inside the Fifties' Soviet Dream. By Francis Spufford. Faber & Faber; 434 pages; £16.99 The view from Rio Brazil Brazil on the Rise: The Story of a Country Transformed. By Larry Rohter. Palgrave Macmillan; 304 pages; $27 and £18.99 Men only Stately homes Inheritance: The Story of Knole and the Sackvilles. By Robert Sackville-West. Walker; 320 pages; $26. Bloomsbury; £20 The landscape of a blighted planet New essays Book of Days: Personal Essays. By Emily Fox Gordon. Spiegel & Grau; 320 pages; $15 Take your time, and look Geography of Britain Never Eat Shredded Wheat: The Geography We've Lost and How to Find it Again. By Christopher Somerville. Hodder & Stoughton; 240 pages; £12.99 The story of Budrus Palestinian non-violence Robert Boyle Courses Appointments Appointments Appointments Tenders Business & Personal Overview Office vacancy rates Output, prices and jobs The Economist commodity-price index Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates Government-bond yields Markets The Economist Taj Forever
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