■The world this week
Politics this week
Business this week
KAL's cartoon (6)

■Leaders
Investment management
The rise of BlackRock (28)
The future of Afghanistan
Too important for pique (3)
Crisis in Ukraine
Not the same movie (149)
Asset prices
More bricks, fewer bubbles (14)
Genetically modified crops
Fields of beaten gold (32)

■Letters
Letters
On Puerto Rico, climate change, economics, Fred Sanger, stolen art, jazz, Obamacare, Germany (4)

■Briefing
BlackRock
The monolith and the markets (6)

■United States
Public finances
Those pension blues (64)
San Francisco
Growing pains (10)
Political polarisation
United States of Amoeba (2)
America and China
Choose me! No, me!
Homelessness
Tales from the streets
Southern history
Not even past (22)
Lexington
Why Americans are so angry (117)
Correction: Hunting with drones

■The Americas
Canadian politics
The son also rises (16)
Brazil’s economy
The deterioration (20)
Cultural politics in Colombia
Whose statues? (4)
Fragile Argentina
Riots in Cordoba (1)
Haiti and the Dominican Republic
A storm in Hispaniola (12)

■Asia
Thailand’s protests
Pressing the pause button (5)
Biden in Asia
Holding pattern (15)
Elderly suicides in South Korea
Poor spirits (1)
Gays in Taiwan
Going nuclear (3)
America in Afghanistan
Filling stations in the sky (1)
The United States in Central Asia
Going, going… (1)

■China
Mao Zedong
Merry Mao-mas! (3)
Judicial reform
Court orders (1)
Banyan
Lip service (47)

■Middle East and Africa
Africa and France
New ways to play an old song (8)
Mali’s recovery
Taken down a peg
Malawi’s mess
Banda and the bandits (2)
Mining in west Africa
Where’s our cut?
Egypt’s politics
Could it be any more baffling?
Syrian heritage
In ruins (2)

■Europe
Ukraine’s protests
A new revolution on Maidan Square (27)
Poverty in Hungary
How to help the homeless (16)
Prostitution in France
Turning off the red light (4)
Spain’s Socialists
Popular and inexperienced (2)
Strikes in Greece
Stalemate
Charlemagne
Out of commission (2)

■Britain
Stay-at-home voters
The reluctant kingmakers (3)
Rural thefts
On the lamb (1)
Energy and greenery
Blustery (2)
Political reformers
They’re back
Business credit
Still cramped
Supermarkets
Stuck in the middle (2)
Drugs in prisons
Supply and remand
Bagehot
Top of the class (7)
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■International
School league tables
Finn-ished (111)
Beating bribery
Small change (1)
Political poetry
What rhymes with protest?

■Business
The future of corporate IT
Surfing a digital wave, or drowning? (3)
Patent reform in America
Trolls on the hill (2)
Paying chief executives
Fortune favours the boss
Apple in China
Better days ahead (14)
Accountancy reform
Shining a light on the auditors (2)
German companies
An unhappy business (2)
Piano-makers
Major challenges, minor successes (1)
Advertising
Nothing more than feelings (2)
Schumpeter
From cuckolds to captains

■Finance and economics
Asset prices
Not fully inflated (10)
The future of the Paris Bourse
Trading up
Pawnbrokers
Hock and sinker
Ireland’s banks
Concentrating binds (1)
China’s currency controls
Zone of contention
Currency unions in Africa
Ever closer (1)
The LIBOR scandal
Fixed harmony (1)
Free exchange
Stagnant thinking (1)

■Science and technology
Sex and brains
Vive la difference! (65)
GM maize, health and the Seralini affair
Smelling a rat (11)
China’s Moon rover
Yutu or me-too? (49)
Cockroach hygiene
Faecal position (5)

■Books and arts
Books of the year
Torrents of words (2)
Books by Economist writers in 2013
Words fit to print

■Obituary
Natalia Gorbanevskaya (1)

■Economic and financial indicators
Output, prices and jobs
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
The Economist commodity-price index
The Economist poll of forecasters, December averages
Markets