2023-01-19-Economist Graphs
1. The world this week
1.1 Politics
1.2 Business
1.3 KAL’s cartoon
1.4 This week’s covers
2. Leaders
2.1 Disney’s troubles show how technology has changed the business of culture
2.2 Turkey could be on the brink of dictatorship
2.3 Excess deaths are soaring as health-care systems wobble
2.4 South Africa’s collapsing railway company is a cautionary tale
2.5 How to sell to the young
3. Letters
3.1 Letters to the editor
4. By Invitation
4.1 Mona Juul says Russia-Ukraine talks would be premature—but preparing for them would not
4.2 Jeffrey Sachs on why neutral countries should mediate between Russia and Ukraine
5. Briefing
5.1 As Disney turns 100, its business is on a rollercoaster ride
6. Europe
6.1 France and Germany stifle their spats to celebrate a 60-year friendship
6.2 A helicopter crash has dealt a heavy blow to Ukraine’s government
6.3 A Russian town counts the cost of Vladimir Putin’s war
6.4 Some liberated Ukrainian regions have mixed loyalties
6.5 The next Czech president will be a Trumpish oligarch or a general
6.6 The Ukraine war is forcing eastern Europe to build more links
6.7 Europe’s “neutral” countries are having to adapt to the new world
7. Britain
7.1 The toxic culture of the Metropolitan Police Service
7.2 The SNP response to the blocking of its transgender act is illiberal
7.3 Britain’s trade unions lose faith in the pay review bodies
7.4 Britain is well-placed to cope with a downturn in the housing market
7.5 Horse-racing in Britain is in deep trouble
7.6 Why super-strict classrooms are in vogue in Britain
7.7 British politics needs more money
8. United States
8.1 Incomes are rising in America, especially for the poorest
8.2 The presidential mislaying of classified documents is infectious
8.3 How America’s far right flits from issue to issue
8.4 What the spread of universal basic-income schemes says about America’s safety net
8.5 It is still legal to hit children in school in 19 American states
8.6 George Santos is the congressman America deserves
9. Middle East & Africa
9.1 Turkey eyes reconciliation with a Syrian regime it tried to topple
9.2 Binyamin Netanyahu rushes to take on Israel’s Supreme Court
9.3 Iran and its Arab neighbours are divided over a name
9.4 How young Sudanese are still fighting for democracy
9.5 South Africa’s disintegrating freight railway is crippling firms
9.6 Why Zimbabwe’s schools have taken to selling chickens
10. The Americas
10.1 What does China’s reopening mean for Latin America?
10.2 Peru’s political chaos looks likely to persist
10.3 Brazil’s new president wants to reduce the number of hungry people
11. Asia
11.1 Japan’s armed forces are getting stronger, faster
11.2 India’s sinking towns spark debates about development
11.3 Why South Korea is talking about getting its own nukes
11.4 Japanese youngsters want to look like Chinese starlets
11.5 Jacinda Ardern resigns as New Zealand’s prime minister
11.6 A murder in Afghanistan highlights the misery of women
11.7 Who gets to define what Asia means?
12. China
12.1 For the first time since the 1960s, China’s population is shrinking
12.2 A planned spaceport in Djibouti may give China a boost
12.3 Covid-19 has already torn through large swathes of China
12.4 Riding the slow train in China
13. International
13.1 Open-source intelligence is piercing the fog of war in Ukraine
14. Special report
14.1 Turkey faces a crucial election this summer
14.2 The Turkish economy is in pressing need of reform and repair
14.3 Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s relatives are becoming increasingly powerful
14.4 The effects on Turkey of Syria’s civil war
14.5 Turkey has given up promoting political Islam abroad
14.6 Turkey has a newly confrontational foreign policy
14.7 The Turkish opposition faces big obstacles to winning the election
14.8 Turkey is still just a democracy, but it is not certain to remain that way
14.9 Sources and acknowledgments
15. Business
15.1 How the young spend their money
15.2 Mexico’s electric-car ambitions
15.3 China’s tech crackdown starts to ease
15.4 Why pointing fingers is unhelpful
15.5 The painful development of India’s startups
15.6 TSMC is making the best of a bad geopolitical situation
16. Finance & economics
16.1 Why health-care services are in chaos everywhere
16.2 China’s re-globalisation paradox
16.3 Venture capital’s $300bn question
16.4 Japan’s extraordinarily expensive defence of its monetary policy
16.5 Investment banks are struggling in a high-interest-rate world
16.6 The rise of the uber-luxurious office
16.7 Could Europe end up with a worse inflation problem than America?
17. Science & technology
17.1 Which firm will win the new Moon race?
17.2 Ideas for finding ET are getting more inventive
17.3 A decades-old model of animal (and human) learning is under fire
18. Culture
18.1 New films in France tackle race, gender, exile and belonging
18.2 “Pegasus” lifts the lid on a sophisticated piece of spyware
18.3 A philosopher offers four case studies in failure
18.4 “O Caledonia” teaches girls how to grow up
18.5 In “Still Pictures” Janet Malcolm turns her pen on herself
18.6 Translating the Bible is a vexed task, as a new book shows
19. Economic & financial indicators
19.1 Economic data, commodities and markets
20. The Economist explains
20.1 How gas stoves became part of America’s culture wars
20.2 How humans healed the ozone layer
21. Obituary
21.1 Adolfo Kaminsky saved thousands of Jews by changing their identities
22. Graphic detail
22.1 A flurry of new studies identifies causes of the Industrial Revolution