The Economist Asia - 24.02.2018

The EconomistFebruary 24th 2018 Finance and economics 61 2 B ONDS, shares and Treasury bills are all very well, but in the end t ...

62 Finance and economics The EconomistFebruary 24th 2018 1 T EN months ago the Trump administra- tion took aim at steel and alum ...

The EconomistFebruary 24th 2018 Finance and economics 63 2 in a crisis). Nevertheless, the bank that Mr Gulliver hands over to J ...

64 Finance and economics The EconomistFebruary 24th 2018 I LMARS RIMSEVICS, for 17 years the go- vernor of Latvia’s central bank ...

The EconomistFebruary 24th 2018 Finance and economics 65 O N A clear day, sunset over Lake Zug is magnificent. Snow-dusted moun- ...

66 Finance and economics The EconomistFebruary 24th 2018 A MID the name-calling and bluster that mar many fights be- tween econo ...

The EconomistFebruary 24th 2018 67 For daily analysis and debate on science and technology, visit Economist.com/science 1 W HAT’ ...

68 Science and technology The EconomistFebruary 24th 2018 1 2 T AKE the fertilised egg of a pig. From each cell in the resulting ...

The EconomistFebruary 24th 2018 Science and technology 69 1 2 C ALCULATING machines that run on quantum bits (known asqubits, fo ...

70 Science and technology The EconomistFebruary 24th 2018 2 cal computing in the days before silicon. The slightest puff of inte ...

The EconomistFebruary 24th 2018 71 For daily analysis and debate on books, arts and culture, visit Economist.com/culture 1 T O A ...

72 Books and arts The EconomistFebruary 24th 2018 1 2 line searches for racial epithets correlate with interest in “Social Secur ...

The EconomistFebruary 24th 2018 Books and arts 73 1 2 A LITTLE-KNOWN perk of reporting from the White House is free caffeine fro ...

74 Books and arts The EconomistFebruary 24th 2018 2 The history of art Out of one, many O N FEBRUARY 23rd 1969 Kenneth Clark, a ...

75 The Economist February 24th 2018 The Republic of Uganda NATIONAL ROADS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME CIVIL WORKS FOR THE UPGRADING OF ...

Statistics on 42 economies, plus a closer look at corruption perceptions Economic data Economic data % change on year ago Budget ...

The EconomistFebruary 24th 2018 Economic and financial indicators 77 Indicatorsfor more countries and additional series, go to: ...

78 The EconomistFebruary 24th 2018 I T WAS late, 1985, before John Perry Bar- low got into computers. He’d bought a word process ...

The opportunity for Indonesia to become an innovation-led economy is clear. Yet the government has been slow to improve the coun ...

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