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■The world this week
Politics this week (1)
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon (5)

■Leaders
Nuclear power
The dream that failed (139)
The Republicans
Let Romney be Romney (66)
The world economy
Another oil shock? (7)
Innovation in China
From brawn to brain (23)
Trade in Latin America
Unity is strength (4)

■Letters
Letters
On Iran, nutrition, electing police commissioners, statistics, Somali pirates, whales, Rick Santorum

■Briefing
Japan after the 3/11 disaster
The death of trust (1)

■United States
The Republican nomination
No end in sight (6)
Inequality
The gap widens, again (4)
College enrolment
Snob nation (10)
Contraception
The rubber hits the road (5)
High-speed trains
Going nowhere fast (2)
Counter-terrorism
A snoop too far (5)
Building mosques
Answering the call (12)
Lexington
The view from Tehran (30)

■The Americas
Brazil, Mexico and trade
Two ways to make a car (29)
The Caribbean
A Chinese beachhead? (1)
Canada and Iceland
A loonie idea (52)
Argentina and the Falklands
Opposing worlds (24)
Mexico’s election
Calderón the campaigner (3)

■Asia
India’s state elections
A welcome slap in the face (23)
Timor-Leste
Small country, big year (2)
Myanmar’s last Jews
Burma’s bimah (2)
Taiwan, America and meat wars
Gored (10)

■China
The National People’s Congress
Satisfy the people (1)
Who’s reading what?
The East is read
Banyan
The Buddha and the tigress (15)

■Middle East and Africa
Egypt’s presidential race
Wanted: maybe a president?
Iranian nukes and polls
Wink or blink (19)
Syria’s crisis
Picking up the pieces (2)
Burundi’s troubles
A sour mood
HIV/AIDS in South Africa
Just cap it

■Europe
Russia’s presidential election
Moscow doesn’t believe in tears (23)
The French elite
Old school ties (7)
The Netherlands and the euro
A very un-Dutch deficit (11)
Spain’s budget deficit
A two-finger salute to Brussels (3)
Poland and Lithuania
Bad blood (98)
German baby hatches
Thinking inside the box
Charlemagne
Mario, put on your toga (5)

■Britain
The government after Steve Hilton
A radical departure (5)
The Church of England
Hot and bothered (10)
Higher education
Pretty polys (1)
Education and jobs
Room at the bottom (4)
Bootleg tobacco
Smoke signals (2)
Mind Candy
Monstrous success
Bagehot
A wit may also be wise
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■International
Agricultural biodiversity
Banking against Doomsday
Cybercrime
Doxed by Sabu (1)
Migration and religion
Holy rollers (1)
Poaching
Black ivory (2)
Vatileaks
Rocking the Holy See (2)

■Special report: Nuclear energy
The dream that failed(5)
A brief history
From squash court to submarine(1)
Safety
Blow-ups happen
Nuclear waste
Leave well alone(1)
Costs
Bandwagons and busts(6)
The prospects
Over the rainbow(1)

■Business
Manufacturing
The end of cheap China (7)
Women in business
Waving a big stick (7)
Cotton exports
Knickers in a twist (7)
Social media and job titles
A pixelated portrait of labour (3)
Apple’s cash pile
How to spend it (4)
Lady Gaga’s internet strategy
Little monster mash
Schumpeter
Slaves to the smartphone (11)

■Finance and economics
Oil and the world economy
The new grease? (16)
Ray Dalio
Man and machine (1)
Buttonwood
Pausing for breath (2)
Inter-bank interest rates
Fixing LIBOR (1)
China’s new growth targets
Year of the tortoise (10)
BTG Pactual’s initial public offering
Better Than Goldman? (2)
Allen Stanford
Arise and fall
Genes and investing
Natural stock selection
Free exchange
Bond shelter (2)

■Science and technology
Treating prostate cancer
The men’s room (3)
Searching for aliens
The wow factor (1)
Antimatter
Violating the rules (10)
Animal behaviour
Smarter than the average bear

■Books and arts
Creating economic wealth
The big why (4)
The uses of religion
Comfort, joy and disagreement (1)
The history of computing
Creation story
New fiction
My family and other animals
Art after Fukushima
Godzilla’s grandchildren

■Obituary
James Q. Wilson (5)

■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, March averages
Markets

■The world this week
Politics this week
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon (7)

■Leaders
Russia’s presidency
The beginning of the end of Putin (188)
Companies and productivity
Small is not beautiful (9)
North Korea’s nuclear weapons
A horse worth the price (42)
China’s capital controls
Set the money free (14)
How to rig an election
Weighing the votes (14)

■Letters
Letters
On the Dodd-Frank act and regulation in America, gays in the workplace, cowboys (2)

■Briefing
Putin’s Russia
Call back yesterday (8)

■United States
The Republican race
Mitt Romney dodges a bullet (6)
Abortion in Virginia
McDonnell’s not-so-magic wand (5)
The Senate
It’s Snowe fun any more (9)
The housing market
Holding back the spring (5)
A sperm bank for elephants
The big freeze (9)
Prayer in public schools
No place to bend the knee (2)
Policing drug sales
Cleaning up the ’hood (23)
Lexington
One nation under gods (35)

■The Americas
Ecuador
The media and the mouth (6)
São Paulo’s mayoral race
The big beast (7)
Colombia’s FARC
Deliverance? (1)
Electoral malpractice in Canada
Delayed reaction (24)
Peru’s Shining Path
One down

■Asia
North Korean nuclear progress
Leap of faith (11)
South Korea’s media
No news is bad news (1)
Poverty in Japan
Shadowy figures (1)
Australian politics
We no longer need to talk about Kevin (15)
Afghanistan’s crisis of trust
Too dangerous to help (11)
Banyan
Bleak House (4)

■China
The politics of economic reform
The bees get busy (3)
The economics of reform
Stoking the furnace (1)
Hong Kong politics
The rigging unravels (5)

■Middle East and Africa
Saudi Arabia
Out of the comfort zone
Syria’s crisis
Into the meat-grinder (31)
Arab diets
Feast and famine (2)
Iranian television
Barrel of laughs (1)
Nigeria’s finance minister
The iron lady (2)
South Africa’s cemeteries
Move over, brother
Correction: Somalia

■Europe
Portugal and the euro
The uncertainty society (10)
Ireland and the euro
Kenny’s heroes? (7)
Illegal immigration
The crossing point (2)
Politics in Greece
Election games
Politics in Italy
The party’s over (2)
The French election
Squeezing the rich (6)
Charlemagne
Tough talk, no strategy (2)

■Britain
Electing the Lords
A house divided (3)
Homophobia
It’s getting better (4)
Drugs policy
Let the qat out of the ban
Welfare reforms
Can work, won’t work (2)
Lloyd’s of London
Risky business
Immigration and settlement
Locking the barn door (1)
Film in Northern Ireland
Welcome to Holywood
Bagehot
David Cameron’s race problem (3)
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■International
Election fraud
How to steal an election
Smart campaigning
Spreading the m-word
Election monitoring
Appservers
Passport design
Hue and cry (1)
Wild meat
Squirrel nutcase (2)

■Technology Quarterly
Monitor
What happened to the flying car?(8)
We’ve got it covered
Reviving autopsy(2)
An open-source robo-surgeon
Pumping ions(1)
Pivoting pixels
No more whirly-splat
Starting from scratch
Meaningful gestures
This is not a video game(2)
Difference engine
Unblinking eyes in the sky(2)
DNA computing
Computing with soup
Energy storage
Packing some power(1)
Inside story
Can the scientists keep up?
The quantified self
Counting every moment(1)
Brain scan
Taking the long view(1)

■Business
Indian takeovers abroad
Running with the bulls (8)
News Corporation’s travails
Rising Sun, setting son (3)
Self-driving cars
Safer at any speed? (4)
Myanmar gets ready for business
Opening soon
IT in Myanmar
Yangon’s digital spring (1)
Fashion retailers and social media
The buying game
Retail fraud
Return to vendor: a dress on loan
Schumpeter
Now for some good news (4)

■Finance and economics
Global poverty
A fall to cheer (4)
Carbon prices
Breathing difficulties
The euro crisis
A firewall full of holes (18)
Buttonwood
Short-changed (4)
Japan’s currency
Wonupmanship (1)
Canada’s pension funds
Maple revolutionaries
Free exchange
Decline and small (2)

■Science and technology
Bunker-busting
Smart concrete (59)
Police line-ups and psychology
Unusual suspects (1)
Human reproduction
Life begins at 45
Radiation and evolution
Surviving fallout (4)

■Books and arts
Quantum physics
House of dreams (2)
World sport
Play up and pay the game
India today
Mixed blessings
Documentary film-making
Face of an angel
New fiction
Stuck at year zero
Discovering Matisse and Picasso
Americans in Paris (1)

■Obituary
M.R.D. Foot (5)

■Economic and financial indicators
Output, prices and jobs (3)
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
The Economist commodity-price index
Wall Street bonuses
Markets

■The world this week
Politics this week (1)
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon (6)

■Leaders
Nuclear proliferation
Bombing Iran (508)
Financial innovation
Such seething brains, such shaping fantasies (5)
Fishing and rights
How to stop fishermen fishing (4)
Retailers and the internet
Clicks and bricks (5)
Official statistics
Don’t lie to me, Argentina (51)

■Letters
Letters
On private equity, Myanmar, the Republicans and birth control, fishing in Africa, Afghanistan, Chinese censorship, Facebook (1)

■Briefing
Attacking Iran
Up in the air (24)
Nuclear diplomacy
Stalled (4)
Tougher sanctions
From half-hearted to harsh (2)

■United States
Campaign finance
The hands that prod, the wallets that feed (9)
Corporate tax rates
A useful trim (1)
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Building a bigger tent (7)
Joe Kennedy III
Back to the chocolate cake (11)
Crime and politics
The Chicago way (3)
Start-ups
Tending their gardens (2)
Conservative education reform
The Floridian school of thought (15)
Lexington
Republican fratricide (131)

■The Americas
Argentina’s inflation problem
The price of cooking the books (26)
Hugo Chávez
The Venezuelan patient (15)
Mexico’s presidential election
Diaspora apathy (4)

■Asia
Australia
The Punch and Julia show (10)
Sri Lanka and the UN
Unslayable ghosts (41)
Elections in Mumbai
Gluttons for punishment
Indonesian politics
The great unravelling (3)
Banyan
Old king coal (6)

■China
Changing migration patterns
Welcome home (2)
The impact of Chinese migration
We like to move it move it (4)
Sporting heroes
Adopted son (8)

■Middle East and Africa
Somalia’s future
A ray of hope (4)
Yemen’s election
One vote, one man (1)
Voting in Iran
A test at home
The Palestinians
Trying to reconnect (1)

■Europe
Turkey’s political in-fighting
Erdogan at bay (8)
Ataturk’s image
A secularist’s lament (7)
Germany’s new president
Enter Gauck (2)
Serbia, Kosovo and Europe
A Balkan cliffhanger (3)
Hungary and the European Union
Backing down gently (12)
France’s presidential election
Frontal assault (3)
Charlemagne
Too long an illness (46)
Corrections: Spanish cities and Finnish politics

■Britain
Police commissioners
Bobbies on the ballot (2)
Costume dramas
The other half lives (7)
Extradition
Hard cases (1)
Tiny airports
Ahead in the clouds (1)
University admissions
Fair enough (3)
Internet censorship
Regulation by stealth
The concrete business
Feet of clay
Britain’s new tabloid
The Sun also rises (1)
Bagehot
Crime and democracy (1)
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■International
Fisheries
Lost property
Journalists at risk
Firing lines (5)
Measures of well-being
Chilled out (4)
Corporate disclosure
Extracting oil, burying data (1)

■Special report: Financial innovation
Playing with fire(4)
How innovation happens
The ferment of finance
The little guy
Exchange-traded funds
From vanilla to rocky road
High-frequency trading
The fast and the furious(1)
Financial infrastructure
Of plumbing and promises
On the side of the angels(1)
Collateral
Safety first(1)

■Business
Shopping and the internet
Making it click
Veolia’s boardroom battle
Plumbing the depths (1)
Alibaba.com
So long, for now (2)
Diet products
A big, bad business
Motor racing
NASCAR’s ride gets bumpy
Business in Rwanda
Africa’s Singapore? (48)
Schumpeter
Enterprising oldies (1)

■Finance and economics
Lost economic time
The Proust index (8)
Buttonwood
Repressed memories (1)
Greece’s bail-out
Rescue fatigue (9)
IT and espionage on Wall Street
Cracking the penal code (5)
Oil markets
High drama
PIMCO’s new exchange-traded fund
Cheaper Bill
Building competitiveness
Insider aiding (1)
Free exchange
Arab spring cleaning

■Science and technology
Quantum computing
An uncertain future (6)
Animal rights
Whales are people, too (25)
Microscopy
X-ray specs
Artificial meat
Hamburger junction (24)
Preserving rare languages
Embracing the future

■Books and arts
Egypt’s revolution
The next draft
America and Iran
Cloud computing (1)
Tony Judt
History boy
Literature and its influences
Mother, may I (2)
Literary biography
Wee Wilkie
Cindy Sherman at MoMA
Mistress of self-effacement

■Obituary
Anwar Kamal (4)

■Economic and financial indicators
Output, prices and jobs (1)
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
The Economist commodity-price index
US cars and light trucks (1)
Markets

■The world this week
Politics this week (2)
Business this week (3)
KAL’s cartoon (5)

■Leaders
United States’ economy
Over-regulated America (154)
Europe and the euro
A way out of the woods (73)
India and its near-abroad
The elephant in the region (45)
The Muslim Brotherhood
Dialogue is the best defence (33)
Carmakers in Europe
Hands off the wheel

■Letters
Letters
On Syria, aircraft emissions, Charles Murray, Japan, Brazil, the British press, romance

■Briefing
The Dodd-Frank act
Too big not to fail (13)

■United States
Excessive regulation
Tangled up in green tape (5)
Deleting regulations
Of Sunstein and sunsets (4)
The president’s budget
Another doomed exercise (5)
Insider trading in Congress
Taking STOCK (3)
Reforming gang members
Where homies can heal (3)
Nuclear power
The 30-year itch (3)
Lexington
Buttering-up and scolding (12)

■The Americas
Brazilian politics
Coming into her own (18)
Foreign-investment disputes
Come and get me (1)
Venezuela’s oil industry
Spilling over (2)
Immigrants in Belize
A Spanish accent
Jails in Honduras
An avoidable tragedy (5)

■Asia
Economic planning in India
Tales of the unexpected (4)
India and its near-abroad
Your friendly big brother (3)
South Korea’s influence in Asia
This year’s model
Indonesia
The Komodo economy

■China
China’s princelings
Grappling in the dark (39)
Consumption economics
The incredible shrinking surplus
Norway and China
Cold shoulder (19)
Banyan
Wolf in pig’s clothing (5)

■Middle East and Africa
The Arab spring
A long march (18)
Syria’s crisis
An offensive regime
Qatar’s ruler
Flying-carpet diplomacy (3)
Africa’s oceans
A sea of riches (1)
Sierra Leone and the UN
Turning tables

■Europe
Greece and the euro
Flaming February (12)
Labour reform in Italy
Dangermen (4)
Labour reform in Spain
Spanish practices (2)
France’s presidential election
The declaration (7)
The media in Russia
Echo no more? (15)
German services
Protected and inefficient (12)
European financial regulation
Laws for all (1)
Charlemagne
Running against Merkozy (22)

■Britain
Oil and gas
Roll on the barrels
Economic turmoil
Over to you, George (3)
NHS reform
Difficult birth, slow recovery (2)
Organ transplants
Life after death (3)
Lessons from East Asia
Classroom crush (2)
Funding the arts
The show must go on
Bagehot
The Clegg paradox (1)
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■International
Poverty and food
The nutrition puzzle (4)

■Business
European carmakers
Too many cars, too few buyers (5)
Nuclear energy in France
Fallout (1)
Telecoms in America
A dark day for LightSquared (2)
Patents and mobile devices
FRAND or foe? (1)
The best and worst stocks of the past decade
Invest in a time machine (5)
Corporate fraud
Mind your language (2)
Japanese manufacturing
From summit to plummet (5)
Schumpeter
This time it’s serious (2)

■Finance and economics
Rescuing Greece
Beyond the edge (83)
Buttonwood
The oil barons have a ball (2)
America’s mortgage deal
Unsettling (2)
The Bank of Japan
Time for action
The lexicon of hedge funds
From alpha to smart beta (6)
Hedge-fund closures
Quitting while they’re behind
Measuring the impact of regulation
The rule of more (6)
Free exchange
Latin lessons (5)

■Science and technology
Cosmology
The dark side of the universe (7)

■Books and arts
Poverty in Mumbai
The places in between (1)
Nancy and Lawrence Durrell
Days of heaven
Capital punishment in America
Justice, delayed and denied (3)
Haiti’s history
Many trials and errors
Patterns of migration
Go with the flow (1)
Murakami in the Middle East
Hundred-metre dash

■Obituary
Whitney Houston (7)

■Economic and financial indicators
Output, prices and jobs
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
The Economist commodity-price index
Global business barometer
Markets

■The world this week
Politics this week
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon (5)

■Leaders
Arab revolutions
How to set Syria free (84)
Change in Russia
A Moscow spring? (6)
The rich world’s economy
Not quite party time (7)
Pakistan’s army and the law
The men in black v the men in green (4)
Resource nationalism in Africa
More for my people (2)

■Letters
Letters
On state capitalism and China, Greece, cluster munitions, the super-rich, Facebook

■Briefing
Syria’s crisis
The long road to Damascus (22)

■United States
Drugs policy
Pills and progress (4)
The Republican nomination
The Santorum surge (7)
Indecency and television
Giving the FCC the finger (33)
Gay marriage
Equal protection indeed (5)
Jobs and the economy
A game of two halves (6)
Segregation
The dream is getting closer (1)
Technology and the election
Boffins wanted (9)
Lexington
Obama’s “war on religion” (61)

■The Americas
Venezuela’s presidential campaign
Mano a mano (5)
Privatising Brazil’s airports
Fasten your seat belts (10)
Women in Mexican politics
The XX factor (4)

■Asia
Myanmar’s startling changes
Pragmatic virtues (5)
The Maldives
Reverting to type (2)
India’s last hangman
An executioner’s tale (19)
Japan’s electricity industry
Power politics (2)
Mobile phones in North Korea
Also available to earthlings
Banyan
My brothers’ keepers (7)

■China
Religion and the Communist Party
Render unto Caesar (33)
Reporting Chinese politics
Hidden news (18)

■Middle East and Africa
Israel and Iran
Closer to take-off (81)
Eyeing the Arab spring
Gloom and bloom (1)
Egypt’s turmoil
It goes on and on
Sudan and South Sudan
The mother of all divorces (1)
Resource nationalism in Africa
Wish you were mine (3)

■Europe
Russia’s protests
Just making our feelings known (5)
Romanian politics
New government, old problems (38)
Spanish politics
Rubalcaba’s cube (5)
Finland’s new president
A conservative first (7)
Greece’s woes
Brinkmanship in Athens (34)
German dialects
Teenagers’ argot (7)
Charlemagne
1789 and all that (16)

■Britain
The coalition’s performance
Pulled hither and thither (1)
Quantitative easing
Just more of the same? (2)
Beer
Brewers’ droop
The Tories and European justice
A legal bombshell (3)
Grammar schools
Natural selection (2)
Private equity
Keep calm and carry on
Manufacturing industry
The Midlandstand (1)
Bagehot
The death of meritocracy (10)
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■International
Swiss banking secrecy
Don’t ask, won’t tell (2)
Internet freedom and copyright law
ACTA up (3)

■Special report: Pakistan
Perilous journey(6)
Afghanistan
Too close for comfort(3)
Foreign policy
State of vulnerability
Politics
Captain’s innings(3)
Religion
In the shadow of the mosque(2)
The economy
Lights off(2)
A taste of Hunny
Poverty
Always with us
Violence
Dripping with blood
Water
Going with the flow(2)

■Business
Model economics
The beauty business
Cosmetic treatment for men
Beauty and the beasts (2)
Glencore and Xstrata
Ore inspiring (1)
Underpaid bosses
They really exist (6)
Planes and pollution
Trouble in the air, double on the ground (4)
India’s telecoms scandal
Megahurts (9)
Corporate governance
Not King Coal
Schumpeter
Of companies and closets (5)

■Finance and economics
Sovereign bonds
Oat cuisine
Buttonwood
Keep on trucking (9)
Short-selling
Getting to the naked truth (2)
The Korea discount
Minority report (1)
Credit cards in China
Citi building
Building competitiveness
A fare fight (1)
Free exchange
Go for the churn (1)

■Science and technology
Sex and love
The modern matchmakers (10)
Social networking for scientists
Professor Facebook (3)
Pollution in China
Clearing the air
Why zebra are striped
Horse sense (12)

■Books and arts
The first sexual revolution
Pleasure principles (1)
Pakistan’s future
Resilient mess (2)
The mystery of Mitt Romney
The puzzler (2)
Documentaries on Russia
Off balance (2)
Lucian Freud in London
Local hero
New fiction
Books of laughter and forgetting

■Obituary
Wislawa Szymborska (13)

■Economic and financial indicators
Output, prices and jobs
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
The Economist commodity-price index
Football wealth (2)
Markets

■The world this week
Politics this week (2)
Business this week (1)
KAL’s cartoon (4)

■Leaders
Facebook
A fistful of dollars (128)
The future of Fleet Street
Fit to print (5)
France’s presidential election
Hey, big spender (5)
China’s economy
Time for a property tax (5)
America’s retreat from Afghanistan
The spectre of comparisons (5)

■Letters
Letters
On climate change, Alberta’s energy fields, Japan, ”tabling”, Romania, India, airlines, online piracy, shopping, fitness (2)

■Briefing
Floating Facebook
The value of friendship (4)

■United States
The Republican nomination
The big bellwether swings for Romney (14)
Fund-raising
The money primary (2)
The economy
A hair of the dog (1)
Unionisation
Another one takes the plunge (3)
Chinese college students
Making ting tong cool (12)
Gang violence
Turf wars (1)
Lexington
The classes drift apart (21)

■The Americas
Canada’s housing market
Look out below (5)
Baseball in Latin America
Draft dodgers no more (2)

■Asia
America in Afghanistan
Outta here (11)
Papua New Guinea
Desperate fling
Politics in Malaysia
Najib at bay (2)
Myanmar and Singapore
Among friends (1)
Politics in India
UP, down, sideways (1)
Banyan
The devil in the deep blue detail (3)

■China
Taxing China
Pay and play (1)
Tibetans and the Chinese state
No power to pacify (16)
Hong Kong and the mainland
Dogs and locusts (12)

■Middle East & Africa
Arab spring economies
Unfinished business (2)
Senegal’s election
Two terms and maybe you’re out
Health care in Sierra Leone
It’s up to you
Race in South Africa
Still an issue
Social media
#AfricaTweets (3)

■Europe
French politics
And they’re off (15)
Germany’s intelligence services
Protection racket
Germany and eastern Europe
Love in a cold climate (7)
Spain’s regions
The centre tries to hold (3)
Portugal’s problems
The next special case? (5)
Pollution in the Netherlands
Dirty dikes (1)
Charlemagne
Angela the lawgiver (7)

■Britain
Press regulation
Guarding the guardians
Bashing finance
Royal Bank of Salem (4)
Locating airports
Hub caps (4)
Universities
Pile them high (2)
The farming boom
Muck and brass
The coalition and Europe
The veto that wasn’t
Policing reform
Body count
Bagehot
Lessons from a great school (2)
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■International
Islam and homosexuality
Straight but narrow (16)
Political violence and trauma
Beaten but unbowed
Neglected tropical diseases
Hot tropic

■Business
Carlos Slim
Let Mexico’s moguls battle (1)
Fighter jets
Bomb bays to Delhi (7)
Big boats
Offshore finance
Health care in America
Shopping around for surgery (2)
Accounting in China
Seeing the forest for the trees (1)
Bakers and chaebol in South Korea
Let them eat cake (1)
Schumpeter
The coming retail boom (9)

■Finance and economics
The Reserve Bank of India
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