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◆On the cover
Some countries are beginning to worry about falling numbers, but there are measures that governments can take to deal with decline



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◆The world this week
Politics this week
Business this week
KAL's cartoon

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◆Leaders
Demography
How to deal with a falling population
Sovereign-wealth funds
Governments go shopping
Regulating business
Smelly old SOX
Islam and democracy
The lesson from Turkey
Britain under water
Building on sand


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◆Letters
On Iraq, terrorism, Kosovo, China and Darfur, the Supreme Court, the pope


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◆Special Report
Japan's changing demography
Cloud, or silver linings?


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◆United States
Prison conditions
Gently does it
The Democrats debate
Innocence and experience
California's budget
The penny drops
New Mexico
The politics of Indian coal
New York
A spill grows in Brooklyn
Phoenix
Into the ashes
Dogfighting
Cruel and inhuman
Lexington
Dick Cheney reveals his secrets


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◆The Americas
Peru
That elusive feel-good factor
Brazil
Extinct, or just adapting?
Bolivia
A fight to be capital
Toronto
Nice but broke
Ecuador
Caught on camera


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◆Asia
Urbanisation in China
China's Chicago
Pakistan
Chaudhry chuffed
Tribal conflict in Afghanistan
Fighting for land and water
Indian politics
The Gandhis' girl
China's corpse brides
Wet goods and dry goods


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◆Middle East & Africa
Congo
Only just staying in one piece
Southern Sudan
Looking for a new identity
Botswana
Precious goes to Hollywood
Zimbabwe
Kroners for cronies
Middle East diplomacy
Blair of Arabia
Israel's economy
Vigorous but vulnerable
Libya
Bribery wins, for the moment


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◆Europe
Elections in Turkey
The burden of victory
Reform in Italy
La dolce pensione
Spain
Lost for words
Russia
Putin versus nobody serious
Russia's opposition
A bolshie Bolshevik
Kosovo
Out with the UN, in with the EU
Charlemagne
Money-go-round

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◆Britain
Inundations
Double deluge
Drug-strategy review
Prescription renewal
Northern Ireland
Now for the really hard part
Terrorism laws
Once more unto the vote


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◆International
Dealing with disasters
Flood, famine and mobile phones
America and the UN
A matter of honour

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◆Business
Outsourcing
External affairs
Ford
A costly distraction
Car parts
Bulking up
Japanese companies in China
Questioning the Middle Kingdom
China's new labour law
Red flag
Cultural filtering
The flavour of cool
Tasers
Sparky performance
Face value
Tested mettle


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◆Special Report
Sarbanes-Oxley
Five years under the thumb


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◆Finance & Economics
Sovereign-wealth funds
Keep your T-bonds, we'll take the bank
Buttonwood
Spreading caution
Bond insurers
A monoline meltdown?
China's economy
It doesn't add up
Equity research
Trading favours
Wildfire insurance
Burnt out
Banking
All together now
Economics focus
Soft currency


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◆Science & Technology
Power transmission
Where the wind blows
Power storage
Trapped wind
Demography and fertility
In vitro veritas
Asexual reproduction
Wise or foolish virgins?


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◆Books & Arts
Globalisation
The early pioneers
Trees
A walk on the wild side
Fertility treatment
Made, not begotten
“The Simpsons Movie”
Dysfunctional family on the move
Crime fiction
A better class of whodunnits
Islamic art
For your edification and delight

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◆Obituary
Mohammed Zahir Shah


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◆Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
Austria
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Executive pay