The Economist [Fri, 14 Aug 2020] by calibre instant download

The Economist [Fri, 14 Aug 2020] by calibre instant download

本期文章:

Politics this week

Business this week

KAL’s cartoon

The Chinese model: Xi’s new economy

Belarus: The sham of it

American politics: What Kamala says about Joe

Microfinance: Credit where it’s due

Britain’s economy: Grey v growth

Letters to the editor: On elderly care, technology, Lyndon Johnson, choral singing, journalism

China’s hybrid capitalism: Blooming for the glory of the state

Development in Cambodia: Service economy

Indonesia’s environment: For peat’s sake

NIMBYism in Japan: Anti-anti-missile systems

Eating ant eggs in Laos: Jungle caviar

Banyan: A one-family state

WeChat in America: The big unfriending

Repression in Hong Kong: In the party’s sights

Chaguan: Being blind and young in China

Kamala Harris: Groundbreaking and predictable

Economic stimulus: Prolonging the pain

Looting in Chicago: Smash and grab

Au-pair wars: Essential or exploited?

The decennial census: All flaxen was his poll

Lexington: Flag-rapping

Mexico: A new kingpin on the block

Bolivia: Democracy deferred

The Arctic: A shortened shelf life

Tunisia: Ten years after the revolution

Lebanon after the blast: Taking a fall

Ivory Coast: Triumph of the gerontocrats

Nigeria: Hair from everywhere

Tanzania: Courting the big man

Belarus’s bogus election: The gentle revolution

Russia and the Baltics: Hacker alert

Germany: The ballooning Bundestag

Bike gangs: Sleazy riders

Charlemagne: The other villain

Economic policy: A grey and stagnant land

GDP: Crash

Exam results: A level playing field?

Migrants in dinghies: A rather small invasion

Fighting covid-19: Local heroes

Farm labour: Ripe for reform

Feminising the Foreign Office: Who runs the world?

Bagehot: A certain idea of Britain

America’s State Department: The dereliction of diplomacy

Sino-American commercial relations: Endgame

More Sino-American decoupling: The nuclear option

Bartleby: Labour’s lost love

Saudi Aramco: Trial by fire

Juggling profits and purpose: Profits v purpose

Airbus A380: Superjumbo problems

Schumpeter: The new dividend royalty

Economic convergence: Club class

Turkey’s currency turmoil: Not at this rate

Tax transparency: Hands off, Uncle Sam

Gold in India: Financial alchemy

Blended finance: Seeking scale

Free exchange: Conscious uncoupling

Raising the floor: What harm do minimum wages do?

Space warfare: A legal void

Quantum mechanics: A flutter in time

Palaeontology: Not guilty?

Zoology: Rules of attraction

Images of covid-19: Decent exposure

People power: Beginner’s luck

Espionage: The Führer’s man in Manhattan

Brazilian literature: Dead man’s blues

Economic data, commodities and markets

US presidential election: The old college try

Leon Fleisher: Right hand, left hand

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