■The world this week
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■Leaders
The new economics of oil
Sheikhs v shale (131)
Nuclear power in China
Make haste slowly (25)
Japan’s election
Abe’s last chance (12)
The transformation of cities
A suburban world (8)
Regulating robotic aircraft
Free the drones (10)

■Letters
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■United States
Veterans
What next? (17)
America’s next defence secretary
Fit for purpose (6)
The budget
Deficit? What deficit? (5)
Seven years since the recession began: how America is faring
How America is faring (14)
Rehabilitating young offenders
Pups and perps (1)
Sex crimes on campus
Professors as judges (27)
Louisiana politics
Landrieu’s end
Lexington
Rick Perry’s no-frills airline (5)
Clarification

■The Americas
Colombia’s war
Picking up where they left off
Protests in Mexico
¡Justicia! (25)
Drugs policy in Canada
Local heroin (3)
Bello
The Cuban question (24)

■Essay
A planet of suburbs
Places apart

■Asia
Japan and Abenomics
Moment of reckoning (4)
Japan and the war
Abe’s demons (20)
Thai politics
Delaying the day of reckoning (8)
Rural development in South Korea
Pastures new
Correction: Japan

■China
Hong Kong and Taiwan
Losing hearts and minds (18)
Domestic violence
Home truths (7)
Banyan
The world is Xi’s oyster (9)

■Middle East and Africa
Israeli politics
Bibi’s bust-up (25)
Air strikes against IS
Phantoms in deconflict
Law in the Middle East
Judge like an Egyptian (2)
Oman’s succession
After the sultan
Sudan and the UN
Mission in trouble (1)
The emir of Kano
Banker v Boko (1)

■Europe
Georgia and Russia
Dreams deferred (11)
Russian gas exports
Pipe down (74)
Moldova’s election
Slouching towards Europe (6)
French politics
Déjà vu (7)
Sweden’s government
That was quick (37)
Dutch race relations
Blacked up (99)
Charlemagne
Poland’s progress (57)

■Britain
The autumn statement
‘Tis not the season
New homes
Building blocks
Maggie’s moggy and Tony’s tabby
Of mousers and men
Immigration and Europe
Time for tact (3)
Reshoring
Hardly reassuring
Leaving London
Heading north (5)
City devolution
Viva la Wolvolution (1)
Fuel duty
Easy riders
Bagehot
A fairly useful prime minister (6)
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■International
International justice
Nice idea, now make it work (2)
Climate diplomacy
Flexible or toothless? (4)
Bribery
Graft work (2)

■Technology Quarterly
Printing electronics
Chips off the old block(4)
Artificial reefs
Watery dwellings
Streaming media
Video in demand(1)
Nanomedicine
Hunting as a pack
Nuclear fusion
A big bet on small
Robot jurisprudence
How to judge a ’bot
On-demand science
Uber for experiments
Innovation awards
And the winners are…(2)
Modifying devices
Wanted: a tinkerer’s charter
Unmanned aircraft
The robot overhead(1)
Grid-scale storage
Smooth operators(2)
Film projection
The next picture show
Brain scan
Tesla’s electric man(5)

■Business
Nuclear power in China
Promethean perils (2)
German utilities
E.ON and E.OUT (2)
Motorbikes in India
Coming out for a Hero (1)
Online-advertising fraud
Dial “B” for bot (1)
Mining and corruption
Crying foul in Guinea (2)
Schumpeter
Test-tube government (1)

■Finance and economics
Shale oil
In a bind (2)
OPEC
Making the best of a low price
Deposit insurance in China
A premium for risk
Buttonwood
Take your pick (1)
Investment banking
Trading places
Corporate debt in India
Power cut (1)
Lithuania and the euro
Strange bedfellows (3)
The status of economists
The power of self-belief (8)
Private equity
Last hurrah
Free exchange
Poor behaviour (5)

■Science and technology
Manned space flight
This time it’s different... (2)
Neutrino astronomy
Balloon with a view (2)
Disseminating science
Lighten our darkness (6)
Animal culture
Left or right wing? (2)

■Books and arts
Books of the Year
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Books by Economist writers in 2014
What we wrote…

■Obituary
Obituary: P.D. James
Murder most intricate (8)

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