The Economist USA - 21.03.2020

Contents The Economist March 21st 2020

On the cover

The strugle to save li'vu and
the economy ls likely to
present apnl1lng choices:
leader; pap 9. Europe's
lockdown, paae '5·
Governments and central
banks are spending, page 19.
Business zrind1 to a halt,
page 55. The dash to cash,
page 61. The Fed acts, pap 63.
The virus and 1ehools, pap 53.
Italy in peril, pap 45.
American life transformed,
page 23. Covld-1911 exposing
America's resilience as well as
its vulnerability: Lexinpon,
page28. Thegiim prospects
for India, page 33. The virus
and Britain's big state, page 50.
History is a valuable 1"810Ul"C
in dark times: Bagehot, pose 52.
How virus-testing works,
page

• US-China relations in crisis
  Amid the pandemic, Sino-
  American relations are rapidly
  worsening: leader, page n and
  analysis, poge ~


• Ethiopia's hidden war
  A military crackdown threatens
  the country's fragile transition to
  democra~ page

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The world this week

7 A summary of political

and business news

Le1ders

9 The pandemic

Closed

,o The world economy

Fighting the slump

11 Pree speech

Stop deporting reporters

11 Guyana

Petro power struggle

12 Pmfessional spom

The cost of cancelling

Letters

14 On comnavirus and

business, central banks,

Hong Kong, data

Brlefln.c

15 The pandemic

The lockdown and the

long haul

19 The economic

emeqenc:y

Experimental treatment

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Free exchange

Economies can quickly

recover from huge

slumps in GDP-but not

always, page 65

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23 America's covid-

24 The census

25 Joe Bl.den's electoral

distancing

26 Gaymral Americans

71 Fake scrolls

28 Laingtun Dedinism

r.unpant

The Americas

29 Coca and refugees in

Colombia

30 Bello Venezuela's

political quarantine

p Canada and lichen

Alia

13 Covid-19 in India

14 Banyan The Pacific

self-isolates

35 Recession in Australia

36 Jihad in the Maldives

36 .MalcingwagyuJapanese

China

D Sino-American rivalry

38 Worries about imported

infections

39 Cbaguan Suffering teens

Middle East & Africa

41 Ethiopia's hidden war

42 HIV and the disabled

43 Crocodile-hunting in

Congo

43 Prayer in a pandemic

44 Bibi and the vims

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