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Finance in America
Subterranean capitalist blues
In response to red tape and high taxes, corporate America is mutating
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The euro zone
Europe’s other debt crisis
It’s not just sovereign borrowing; there are too many zombie firms and overindebted households
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South Korea’s education system
The great decompression
There are perils for a country in having all your children working too hard for one big exam
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Puerto Rico
Greece in the Caribbean
Stuck with a real debt crisis in its back yard, America can learn from Europe’s Aegean follies
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Trade liberalisation
Canada doesn’t get any sexier than this
A trade pact with Europe points the way to a global market in services
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The new American capitalism
Rise of the distorporation
A mutation in the way companies are financed and managed will change the distribution of the wealth...
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Health reform
Computer says no
The big threat to Obamacare is not Republican intransigence, but the White House’s own...
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After the shutdown
Where next?
There is an opening for a deal that would let government function more normally
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Pension reform in California
Mayors to the rescue
An attempt to reform pensions could pitch Democrat against Democrat
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Brazil’s oil auction
Cheap at the price
A single bid for a vast field shows the weakness of Brazil’s state-led approach to developing its...
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Farming in Colombia
Conflict’s harvest
A protest by farmers draws attention to a deeper crisis in the countryside
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Argentina’s wealth gap
Barbarians at the gate
The capital’s exclusive closed neighbourhoods face a heavy new tax
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Indian foreign affairs
Eastern promise
Manmohan Singh’s foreign policy is undercut by domestic weakness
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Geothermal geopolitics in Korea
Another rumbler
North Korea allows British scientists onto its most sacred peak
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The future of Laos
A bleak landscape
A secretive ruling clique and murky land-grabs spell trouble for a poor country
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Banyan
Across the party wall
Vietnam’s Communist Party is in a bit of a mess, but China’s may have little to teach it
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Feeding 1.36 billion people
Daily bread
As China globalises, some still think it should be self-sufficient in food
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India and Africa
Elephants and tigers
Chinese businessmen in Africa get the attention, but Indians are not far behind
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Guinea’s election
Investors need reassurance
Last month’s general election has made people more nervous than ever
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Education in South Africa
Class action
Why poor parents increasingly send their children to private schools
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Saudi diplomacy
Pique your partners
Saudi rejection of a seat at the UN Security Council is a snub to America
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Saudi Arabia’s women drivers
Ovarian issue
Will Saudi women ever be allowed behind the wheel of a car?
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German politics
In search of the right partner
The two behemoths in parliament start painstaking talks about a joint government
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Spain and ETA
The assassin walks free
A European court orders the release of ETA terrorists from prison
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Turkey’s infrastructure
The sultan’s dream
Next week marks the opening of a grand new tunnel under the Bosphorus
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Charlemagne
A democratic nightmare
Seeking to confront the rise of Eurosceptics and fill the democratic deficit
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Illegal immigration
Over the top
Perhaps half a million people live illegally in Britain. The government’s draconian new...
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Chemicals and independence
Bubbling over
An industrial dispute in Scotland could affect the independence vote
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Bagehot
Duelling with Michael Gove
Tristram Hunt, Labour’s new education spokesman, makes a good start on a crucial task
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Cash to the poor
Pennies from heaven
Giving money directly to poor people works surprisingly well. But it cannot deal with the deeper...
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Parallel worlds
The 38th parallel, separating north and south, is Korea’s most important dividing line. But it is...
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Nuclear North Korea
Bad or mad?
Kim Jong Un is likely to realise his nuclear ambitions, but the two sides already face military...
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Women in South Korea
A pram too far
Faced with overwhelming pressures, South Korean women have gone on baby-strike
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Better lives
Snakes’ heads and dragons’ tails
It is not easy being a Korean, north or south. But at least southerners are free to redefine their...
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Mexico’s maquiladoras
Big maq attack
A 50-year-old export industry that provides millions of jobs has to reinvent itself quickly to stay...
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University presses
Homes for tomes
An often ignored part of the publishing industry faces unique challenges
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Building brands in Africa
Pyramid scheme
To reach Africa’s poorest consumers, face-to-face contact works best
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Telecoms in Algeria
A lost generation
A saga over telecoms licences shows the difficulties of doing business in Algeria
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Bangladesh’s clothing industry
Bursting at the seams
As workers continue to die in unsafe factories, the industry keeps booming
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Schumpeter
The Omidyar way of giving
The founder of eBay aims to be a more entrepreneurial philanthropist than his predecessors
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The euro crisis
Debtors’ prison
The euro zone is blighted by private debt even more than by government debt
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Fixing Europe’s banks
Cleaning the Augean stables
The ECB starts the Herculean task of repairing Europe’s banks
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Financing Europe’s small businesses
Capital remedy
Stock exchanges are courting small firms as never before
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Puerto Rico’s debt crisis
Puerto Pobre
A heavily indebted island weighs on America’s municipal-bond market
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Free exchange
A natural long-term rate
Central banks ignore this century-old observation at their peril
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Interstellar travel
Starship troupers
If starships are ever built, it will be in the far future. But that does not deter the intrepid band...
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The economics of interstellar flight
Starship enterprises
Dismal scientists also like speculating about space flight
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HIV and mothers’ milk
As luck would have it
One of the proteins in milk protects infants against HIV infection
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Erich Priebke
Just following orders
Erich Priebke, unrepentant organiser of the Ardeatine Caves massacre, died on October 11th, aged 100
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