The Economist USA - 28.03.2020

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Contents


The world this week
5 A summary of political
and business news

Leaders
7 The state and covid-
Everything’s under
control
8 The next calamity
Covid-19 and the
emerging world
9 America’s $2trn rescue
Mixed medicine
9 Iran and covid-
Get serious
10 Videoconferencing
etiquette
Through the keyhole

Letters
14 On Taiwan, Myanmar,
primaries, elephants,
Freeman Dyson,
congenital diseases,
house names

Briefing
15 The pandemic and
the state
Creating a coronopticon
18 Economic policy and
the virus
The pillars of state

Special report:
The African century
After page 40

United States
21 A $2trn bazooka
22 The virus and the young
24 Love under lockdown
24 The virus behind bars
26 Teen sexting
27 The Green Party
28 LexingtonUS-China
relations

The Americas
29 BolsoNero
30 The world’s busiest
border closes, sort of
32 BelloThe economic cost
of covid-

Asia
33 Japan, the Olympics and
covid-
34 Politics in Bangladesh
34 Sexual abuse in South
Korea
35 BanyanTaiwan and
covid-
36 Locking down India and
Pakistan

China
37 Going back to work
40 ChaguanOpportunity
amid crisis

Middle East & Africa
41 Covid-19 in Africa
43 Arab states clamp down
44 The virus reaches Gaza

BartlebyThe challenges
of concentrating during a
lockdown, page 59

On the cover


Big government is needed to
fight the pandemic. It may not
shrink again afterwards:
leader, page 7. How modern
data infrastructure can help
fight covid-19, page 15. Rich
countries are experimenting
with radical new economic
policies. History suggests that
the effects will be permanent,
page 18. A new era of
sovereign-debt management:
Free exchange, page 67.
America has a $2trn rescue
package, page 21. Its design is
less than perfect: leader,
page 9



  • Covid-19 in the emerging
    worldThe virus threatens to
    devastate poor countries:
    leader, page 8. Africa is woefully
    ill-equipped to cope, page 41.
    India and Pakistan try to keep a
    fifth of humanity at home,
    page 36. Latin American
    governments scramble to save
    their economies: Bello, page 32.
    Africa is changing so rapidly that
    in the decades to come it will be
    hard to ignore, says Jonathan
    Rosenthal. See our special
    report after page 40


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