onitor three indicators to assess the state of the local economy: the rail freight volume, electricity consumption and bank loan volume. In 2010, The Economist introduced the Li Keqiang Index, which takes the weighted average of these three metrics’ annual growth rates to track Chinese economic growth. The

ject and the remarkable discoveries that have come from it. It was named best science book of the year by The Observer and was a book of the year for The Economist. As Chief Magazine Editor for the world’s leading science journal, Nature, Pearson oversees all its journalism and opinion content. Her own stories

rship, in our view. More questions than answers at this stage Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s initial suggestion in an interview with The Economist that a Saudi Aramco IPO could be considered has raised market expectations. Ensuing comments from Aramco’s management did not make clear whether a li

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arresting each others' children. Iran's nuclear programme appears to proceed independent even of the organs of its own state. A spoof article in the Economist last year portrayed Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, ruminating on western nations' obsessive posturing towards his country. He mused that

dom House, 2014), https://freedomhouse.org/sites/ default/files/Freedom%20in%20the%20World%202014%20Booklet.pdf. 7. “Chinas Internet: A Giant Cage,” Economist, April 6, 2013, http://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21574628-internet- was-expected-help-democratise-china-instead-it-has-enabled. 8. Jess

have been avoidable if Ms Clinton had won, one would come up with the wrong conclusions on what to do to stop the global shift in sentiment. (2) The Economist had a special edition last week on the rising nationalism in the developed West, as if it’s an unfounded, random and sinister event that needs to be

tures like nanosats will simply move to countries from which they can be launched with greater ease. Back to top Nanosatellites: Nanosats are go! The Economist ALTHOUGH widely used, satellites are expensive to build and to launch. That began to change last year. On November 19th Orbital Sciences, an American

arresting each others' children. Iran's nuclear programme appears to proceed independent even of the organs of its own state. A spoof article in the Economist last year portrayed Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, ruminating on western nations' obsessive posturing towards his country. He mused that

it is morally bound to do but has become corrupt and self-serving. So it's effectively the sa- Bannon: It's exactly the same. Currently, if you read The Economist, you read the Financial Times this week, you'll see there's a relatively obscure agency in the federal government that is engaged in a huge fight tha

it is morally bound to do but has become corrupt and self-serving. So it's effectively the sa - Bannon: It's exactly the same. Currently, if you read The Economist, you read the Financial Times this week, you'll see there's a relatively obscure agency in the federal government that is engaged in a huge fight tha

it is morally bound to do but has become corrupt and self-serving. So it's effectively the sa - Bannon: It's exactly the same. Currently, if you read The Economist, you read the Financial Times this week, you'll see there's a relatively obscure agency in the federal government that is engaged in a huge fight tha

rt was, ironically, financed by the Imperial Japanese Army. vii "Inner Mongolia has become China's model of assimilation" by Hohhot and West Ujimqin, The Economist, 1 June 2017, http://www.economist.com/news/china/21722853-chinese-mongolians-are-still-asserting-their- identity-inner-mongolia-has-become-chinas-mo

urnal Lionel Barber and John Gapper at the Financial Times, Andrew Sorkin and Hugo Lindgren at the Times, John Micklethwait and Matthew Bishop at the Economist, Josh Tyrangiel at Businessweek, as well as a handful of international correspondents. Ideally, the first few encounters would be at dinners and even

ratio is above 100%, and the country suffers from low growth (the lowest in the world from 2000-2010 other than Zimbabwe and Haiti, according to the Economist). Think about this: Italy has run a primary budget surplus (i.e. ex-interest payments) every year since 1992, but still hasn't been able to bring its

in its "functioning of government" score, one of the five metrics on which countries are rated. Progress On Peace Measuring world peace is, as the Economist has pointed out, akin to describing "how happiness smells." Nonetheless, the Australia-based Institute for Economics and Peace publishes an annual

Failures Go Far Beyond Iraq George Melloan EFTA00669738 June 26, 2014 -- 'What would America fight for?" asked a cover story last month in the Economist magazine. Coming from a British publication, the headline has a tone of "let's you and him fight." But its main flaw is that it greatly oversimplif

it — forcing the kind of reform a private equity firm would have (though, crucially, providing the cash that a President Romney would not have). The Economist magazine, which initially opposed that bailout, reversed itself because of the manner in which General Motors and Chrysler were made to cut costs an

e ongoing global economic turmoil, a number of African nations have been making impressive strides in their development, a point underscored by The Economist's decision recently to run a leader describing Africa as the "hopeful continent," drawing a clear contrast to its cover story "The Hopeless Contine

st invented, some argued that a country with a growth rate as skimpy as its bikinis, and chronic political instability, did not belong. Now, as the Economist notes, "in some ways, Brazil outclasses the other BRICs. Unlike China, it is a democracy. Unlike India, it has no insurgents, no ethnic and religio