2021-10-30-Economist Graphs
The world this week
Politics
Business
KAL’s cartoon
The world this week
Politics
Business
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders
Climate change
COP-out
Such global gatherings remain the best forum to force change
Coups in Africa
With a putsch and a shove
Jihadism and great-power competition are behind the rise in coups
American taxes
Capital pains
It is not just a fragile majority. It is also a lack of vision and leadership
Chinese women
Clouds over the sky
If women are not allowed to organise, they will struggle to achieve equality
Decentralised finance
The fun in non-fungible
Our auction reveals the promise of decentralised finance—and some big problems
Letters
Letters to the editor
On food technologies, Top Glove, malarial bed nets, Poland, liberals, email
A selection of correspondence
Briefing
Migration
African odyssey
Some governments are trying to make moving easier
Europe
Turkey
Autumn of the patriarch
But it is too soon to write off Recep Tayyip Erdogan
The EU’s borders
Wire transfer
It is reluctant, but may have to comply
Serbia
A Balkans arms race
And its neighbours don’t like it
French acronyms
PFUE? LOL
Why make things simple when they can be complicated, then shortened?
Russia
The new Communists
The Kremlin and the party’s own leader are worried
Charlemagne
Going nuclear
France says it is green. Germany says it isn’t. France will win
Britain
Fiscal policy
Farewell to austerity
British tax rates will rise to levels last seen in the 1950s
The budget
Something ventured
Lobbyists have been given everything on their wish-list
Industry
Battery bonanza
Explaining the rush of gigafactories
Earnings
Pay up
Another bold increase after a pause during the covid-19 pandemic
Benin bronzes
Coming home to roost
Where one goes, many others will follow
Privacy
Taking on the taxman
Can “Jenny” succeed where data-protection watchdogs have failed?
Bagehot
Super-green Boris
The prime minister is gung-ho about climate change—perhaps too much so for his new voters
Middle East & Africa
Sudan
The generals strike back
The generals acted just months before they were due to hand power to civilians
African languages
Free clicks
Learning clicking sounds is tough, especially online
The United Nations
Expatonomics
Expensive lunch menus, high-end car washes and imported nibbles are some of the signs
Countering Iran
Diplomacy by other means
A military response is readied as hope for a nuclear deal fades
Israel
Bibi’s long bye-bye
An unlikely coalition is surpassing expectations. But a crucial vote looms
United States
Entrenched partisanship
The Democrats’ disadvantage
The party faces long-term hurdles that will be hard to overcome
Virginia’s next governor
Down to the wire
Bad news for Democrats
Police and politics (1): Minneapolis
A question of safety
Crunch time for the defunding debate
Police and politics (2): Vaccine mandates
Hands up, no shots
Hands up, no shots
Narco-hippos
Wallow on
They can wallow on a while longer
Prostitution
Bringing sex work out of the shadows
The debate over different approaches to decriminalisation
Lexington
No one loves Joe Biden
Americans elected the president to get rid of his predecessor. They’re not sure what else he can do
The Americas
Chile
Fuelling the flames
A constitutional convention, formed to battle populism, looks unlikely to help
Digital currencies
Red, white and blue tape
Digital currencies are a lifeline for ordinary Cubans
Bello
No-growth economics
But Peronism’s penchant for controls is holding the country back
Asia
South-East Asia
ASEANgst
Credibility trumps consensus as ASEAN attempts to remain relevant
Civil war in Myanmar
In for the long haul
Nine months after a coup, the country is facing a long civil war
Banyan
BJP v Bollywood
The BJP is menacing the country’s film industry
Emissions targets
Zero effort
It relies too much on future technology and not enough on present action
Afghanistan’s economy
The next crisis
More than half its people may go hungry this winter
Japanese society
The sun, the moon and the ponytail
Women are still badly treated, politics is out of sync with the people and the monarchy is dwindling
China
Feminism
The long wait
Progress is possible, but activism is discouraged
Media controls
All the news that’s fit to reprint
All the news sources that may be republished sound similar
International
Vaccine passports
Hard pass
The problem is with humans, not technology
Special report
Stabilising the climate
The biggest picture
There has never been a collective human endeavour more ambitious than stabilising the climate. In this special report our journalists assess what it will take to meet the historic goals agreed on in Paris six years ago
State of play
The Paris challenge
Replacing fossil fuels is becoming easier. But temperatures are still likely to rise too far
The Asian century’s emissions
Eastern approaches
Whether the climate can ever be stabilised depends largely on Asia
Economics and energy
Flows and fuel
Energy choices shape economies—and could reshape them
Negative emissions
If I could turn back time
If negative emissions are to play a role in policy much more needs to be done to make them practically achievable
Veils and ignorance
Governing the atmosphere
Technologies which might stabilise the climate could do the reverse to international relations
Business
Tech earnings
Cloudy with a dearth of chips
The cloud, hardware and competition are gaining in importance
Japanese corporate governance
Poison-pill popping
A hostile takeover should provide some clues
Trouble brewing
America Inc’s earning
Retail subscription services
Outside the box
Box-sellers are trying to adapt
Shell
Splitting time?
The plan to break up an oil major
Bartleby
Into battle they don’t go
Life in uniform is very different from life in suits
Schumpeter
Mad Men v machines
For all its aura of precision, the digital-ad industry is as murky as ever
Finance & economics
Non-fungible tokens
Through the looking glass
The Economist joins the fray by auctioning an NFT of our cover
Our auction
The NFT party
We raised around $420,000 for charity
Tax in America
A tale of two profits
A minimum tax on corporate income seems alluring, but is likely to disappoint
The energy crunch
Perverse but persistent
A new IMF study shows that fossil-fuel subsidies are a climate nightmare
Buttonwood
Back with a vengeance
A decade of low inflation and interest rates smothered forex markets. Now consumer prices and rates are going up
Housing in China
The long wait for a tax everyone loves to hate
The government will at last roll out a property tax
Free exchange
The pyjama revolution
A growing body of research hints at why
Science & technology
Private space stations
Placing perches in the sky
And with them, industry
Avian reproduction
No sex please, we’re condors
An endangered bird may sometimes reproduce without males
Renewable energy
A census of solar cells
The method should work for other energy infrastructure, too
Books & arts
Human rights in China
Xinjiang blues
Darren Byler documents life inside the prison camps. James Millward considers the repression as part of a broader history
“The Potato Eaters”
Earthy delights
People hated “The Potato Eaters” when it was unveiled in 1885. Vincent van Gogh thought it was his best work
Johnson
Write like an Egyptian
“The Writing of the Gods” is an entertaining account of a great intellectual achievement
Europe in the 21st century
Crisis management
Among the disasters and gloom are glimmers of hope
British fiction
Smoke and mirrors
Ferdinand Mount’s new novel revolves around a publicity agency in London
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail
Electric vehicles
The grid’s the thing
With a more robust power grid, petrol-powered cars might have been a minority
Obituary
Anne Saxelby
Say cheese, America!
The pioneering cheesemonger died on October 9th, aged 40
