The Economist UK - 29.02.2020

The EconomistFebruary 29th 2020 Middle East & Africa 41 2 president, Gamal Abdel Nasser, sank the country in a ruinous effor ...

42 Middle East & Africa The EconomistFebruary 29th 2020 2 tional grid. Many have heard that before. Most importantly, Mr Mbo ...

The EconomistFebruary 29th 2020 43 1 A fghanistan and optimism do not tend to go hand in hand, so the mood of quiet anticipation ...

44 Asia The EconomistFebruary 29th 2020 2 1 mise not to give shelter to foreign terrorists groups such as al-Qaeda, and to begin ...

The EconomistFebruary 29th 2020 Asia 45 2 1 the party and banned Mr Thanathorn and other party executives from politics for a de ...

46 Asia The EconomistFebruary 29th 2020 2 Banyan The trumpets sound A s tropical duskturns to night outside Galgamuwa, fireflies ...

The EconomistFebruary 29th 2020 Asia 47 be prioritised,” he said this week in a tele- vised address. But it is doubtful that he ...

48 The EconomistFebruary 29th 2020 1 W hen the covid-19 virus started spreading in China, and the govern- ment began locking dow ...

The EconomistFebruary 29th 2020 China 49 2 dance of up-to-the-minute intelligence on almost every citizen. In the far-western pr ...

50 China The EconomistFebruary 29th 2020 U ntil about the third week of January, only a few pharmaceu- tical executives, drug-sa ...

The EconomistFebruary 29th 2020 51 1 L ast december a British employment tribunal ruled that the Centre for Global Development, ...

52 International The EconomistFebruary 29th 2020 2 fused to take customers’ cash because do- ing so was an essential part of the ...

The EconomistFebruary 29th 2020 53 1 A sk peopleto pinpoint the centre of the digital economy and many will finger Silicon Valle ...

54 Business The EconomistFebruary 29th 2020 2 between Philips, a Dutch electronics giant, and asmInternational, which made semi- ...

The EconomistFebruary 29th 2020 Business 55 1 O n february22nd Warren Buffett re- ported that the conglomerate he runs, Berkshir ...

56 Business The EconomistFebruary 29th 2020 2 Bartleby When rank leads to rancour I n david mamet’sfilm,“Glengarry Glen Ross”,a ...

The EconomistFebruary 29th 2020 Business 57 “A career bookabout Asians? Aren’t they doing fine...?” So begins “Break- ing the Ba ...

58 Business The EconomistFebruary 29th 2020 “I don’t knowif the word disrupter was the right word to use back then, but I’ve alw ...

The EconomistFebruary 29th 2020 59 1 W hen america, the hub of global capi- tal, is this far into an economic ex- pansion and a ...

60 Finance & economics The EconomistFebruary 29th 2020 2 1 to unload some of their holdings—creating yet more volatility. So ...