The EconomistNovember 28th 2020 5
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Contents
The world this week
8 A summary of political
andbusinessnews
Leaders
11 Democracy
How resilient is it?
12 Covid-19 and business
What doesn’t kill you
13 Ethiopia
Preventing war crimes
13 Fiscal stimulus
Therightdiscipline
14 Thepandemicandexams
Papers,please
15 AgricultureinBritain
Ploughingitsownfurrow
Letters
16 Oncovid-19testing,
Germany,women’s
suffrage,freespeech,
rockstars,Singapore,
trains,bitcoin
Briefing
18 DemocracyinIndia
Subcontinentaldrift
United States
21 Rolling out the vaccines
22 Covid-19 in the Midwest
23 Team Biden
24 Gender wars
25 Obscure laws
26 LexingtonThe end of
theembarrassment
The Americas
27 Venezuela
28 Diego Maradona dies
30 BelloThe future of
Bolsonarismo
Asia
31 South Korea’s prosecutors
32 Tamils in Sri Lanka
33 Singapore’s crime wave
33 India, Pakistan
and Kashmir
34 BanyanAustraliav China
China
35 Barriers to Sinology
36 A hit dating-show
37 ChaguanLessons from a
patriotic businessman
Middle East & Africa
39 American sanctions
40 Israel and Saudi Arabia
41 Riots in Uganda
41 Nigeria’s cash clash
42 Migration from Africa
BanyanAustralia learns
the hard way about facing
China’s wrath, page 34
On the cover
Although it has been in
recession, democracy contains
the seeds of its own recovery:
leader,page 11. A power-
hungry prime minister
threatens to turn India into a
one-party state: briefing,
page 18. The assumption that
Republicans will remain in
thrall to Donald Trump could
be misplaced: Lexington,
page 26
- America’s vaccine roll-out
planWhat the federal
government and states have in
mind, page 21.The latest
anti-covid-19 vaccine, page 69 - Better, greener farming in
BritainOutside the EU, farmers
can plough their own furrow:
leader, page 15. A bold attempt
to change British agriculture
runs into two problems: politics
and sheep, page 52 - Covid-19’s corporate winners
and losersHas the pandemic
made incumbent firms stronger?
Page 12. How social distancing is
changing the business of getting
people together, page 57
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