■The world this week
Politics this week
Business this week
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■Leaders
Inequality and the world economy
True Progressivism
EADS and BAE Systems
A European mega-merger? Nein, danke
Immigrant entrepreneurs
The Chilecon Valley challenge
Making peace in the Philippines
Jam to Moros
American finance
The prosecutorial maze

■Letters
Letters
On Chile, productivity, Vietnam, savings, parenting, cancer, Barack Obama

■Briefing
Textbooks round the world
It ain’t necessarily so

■United States
Latinos and the election
Throwing votes away
Predicting re-elections
Follow the data
The economy
A little help from the invisible hand
Moderates under pressure
The excluded middle
Quotations from the campaign
Heard on the trail
Crossing the line
The swing states: Wisconsin
Lexington
Hope and change, four years on

■The Americas
Venezuela’s presidential election
Stuck with him
Argentina’s debt default
Caught napping
Brazilian politics
Local action

■Asia
Presidential politics in South Korea
Bashing the big guys
Politics in Australia
Handbagged
Sri Lanka’s judiciary
Enter the goons
Pakistan’s politics
The peace and love tour
The Philippines’ southern insurgency
It could be peace

■China
China’s stockmarkets
Like it’s 1999
Tibet
Strangers in a strange land
Banyan
Post-merger integration

■Middle East and Africa
Jordan and its king
As beleaguered as ever
Syria’s crisis
No side looks set to win soon
Bahrain
How the police recruit radicals
Iran and its currency crisis
A comeback for the reformers?
Israel’s coming election
Sitting pretty
Kenya’s parliamentarians
Vultures and hyenas

■Europe
Italian politics
Who will be Italy’s next prime minister?
Greece and Germany
Angela’s Athens
Homelessness in France
Down and out in Paris
France’s government and business
Angry pigeons
Germany’s army
No shooting please, we’re German
Charlemagne
No more Grexit

■Britain
Politics
Tribes of Tories
Innovation centres
Roger, West Wales
Energy capacity
Fast, cheap and out of control
Jimmy Savile
The harder they fall
Demography
The boomerang generation
Hospital takeovers
Sick beds
Plessey returns
Chips with everything
Bagehot
The Boris and Dave show
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■International
Fake pharmaceuticals
Bad medicine
Butlers
Very good, sir
Link rot
Cut short?

■Special report: The world economy
For richer, for poorer
History
As you were
Like a piece of string
Like father, not like son
The United States
The rich and the rest
Makers and takers

■Asia
Crony tigers, divided dragons
Lessons from Palanpur
Latin America
Gini back in the bottle
Sweden
The new model
Trade-offs
Having your cake
Policy prescriptions
A True Progressivism

■Business
The proposed merger of BAE Systems and EADS
Kaputt
Huawei and ZTE
Put on hold
Working from home
Out of sight, out of mind
Entrepreneurs in Latin America
The lure of Chilecon Valley
Start-Up Chile
Shut down Cumplo
Schumpeter
The silence of the suits
Correction: Business

■Finance and economics
America’s financial system
Law and disorder
Buttonwood
Precious relic
The IMF’s annual meetings
Time for a rethink
India’s credit rating
Don’t call me junk
Monte dei Paschi di Siena
Monte to climb
Iron ore
The lore of ore
Free exchange
Concrete gains

■Science and technology
The 2012 Nobel prizes
Good eggs
SpaceX goes to the ISS
And this time it means business
Reptilian micturition
That’s a relief

■Books and arts
The spread of disease
Germs and money
New American fiction
Galaxies of colour
The birth of neoliberalism
New brooms
Francesco Guardi’s Venice
Poetry in paint

■Business books quarterly
Starting out
Take the plunge
The power networks
Hands across the world
The innovation race
How not to be left behind
The financial crisis
Easy to describe, hard to fix

■Obituary
Nguyen Chi Thien

■Economic and financial indicators
Output, prices and jobs
Global non-cash payments
Markets
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
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