2023-03-02-Economist Graphs
1. The world this week
1.1 Politics
1.2 Business
1.3 KAL’s cartoon
1.4 This week’s cover
2. Leaders
2.1 New drugs could spell an end to the world’s obesity epidemic
2.2 The new Brexit deal is the best Britain can expect. Support it
2.3 Is Bangladesh’s admired growth model coming unstuck?
2.4 The tech slump is encouraging venture capital to rediscover old ways
2.5 Saving the rainforests would be a bargain
3. Letters
3.1 Letters to the editor
4. By Invitation
4.1 Brian Lande and Jeff Rojek believe that American police need better training
5. Briefing
5.1 A new class of drugs for weight loss could end obesity
6. Europe
6.1 The war in Ukraine has made eastern Europe stronger
6.2 Ukraine finds stepping up mobilisation is not so easy
6.3 Syrian earthquake survivors in Turkey have nowhere to go
6.4 Italy’s largest opposition party gets a young and radical new leader
6.5 After seven years of Brexit talks, Europe has emerged as the clear winner
7. Britain
7.1 Britain’s stockmarket has languished. Its gilt market may be next
7.2 Explaining what is in the Windsor framework
7.3 Britain’s tomatoes are a victim of the energy crisis
7.4 Nicola Sturgeon’s modest record of reform
7.5 Can Britain and France put their differences behind them?
7.6 God’s pronouns are causing conniptions in Britain
7.7 How Britain’s Conservative Party channels Milhouse from The Simpsons
8. United States
8.1 In search of Ron DeSantis’s foreign-policy doctrine
8.2 The Supreme Court looks askance at Biden’s student-debt relief
8.3 Scott Adams’s racist comments were spurred by a badly worded poll
8.4 Chicago’s mayoral run-off will test the Democrats’ left and right
8.5 The big American post-Roe battle over abortion pills
8.6 Why Connecticut is exonerating witches
8.7 Biden’s big bet on big government
9. Middle East & Africa
9.1 How America plans to break China’s grip on African minerals
9.2 Bola Tinubu, Nigeria’s political kingmaker, wins a flawed election
9.3 A new type of Palestinian militia is emerging
9.4 Tunisia’s autocratic ruler adopts the “Great Replacement” theory
9.5 Why Baghdad may have the worst traffic in the Middle East
10. The Americas
10.1 Brazil’s new president may soon face another threat: his predecessor
10.2 Mexico’s government has attacked the country’s electoral watchdog
11. Asia
11.1 Bangladesh’s economic miracle is in jeopardy
11.2 India’s G20 presidency will be a win for Narendra Modi
11.3 South-East Asia is crying out for regional leadership
11.4 Young South Koreans are embracing fractional investing
11.5 New Zealand is right to atone for its colonial crimes in the Pacific
12. China
12.1 China’s prime minister, Li Keqiang, is about to retire
12.2 Chinese arms could revive Russia’s failing war
12.3 How to prevent sycophancy in China’s civil service
12.4 Why aren’t China and America more afraid of a war?
13. International
13.1 The biggest obstacle to saving rainforests is lawlessness
14. Business
14.1 How the titans of tech investing are staying warm over the VC winter
14.2 Investors are going nuts for ChatGPT-ish artificial intelligence
14.3 Foreign investors are being snagged by India’s tax net
14.4 Artificial intelligence is reaching behind newspaper paywalls
14.5 The uses and abuses of hype
14.6 Lessons from Novo Nordisk on the stampede for obesity drugs
15. Finance & economics
15.1 America’s property market suggests recession is on the way
15.2 Russia’s sanctions-dodging is getting ever more sophisticated
15.3 The anti-ESG industry is taking investors for a ride
15.4 China’s cities are on the verge of a debt crisis
15.5 Is India’s boom helping the poor?
15.6 David Solomon lacks answers for Goldman Sachs’s angry investors
15.7 Ajay Banga may be just what the fractious World Bank requires
15.8 The case against Google hinges on an antitrust “mistake”
16. Science & technology
16.1 Firms search for greener supplies of graphite for EV batteries
16.2 The origin of grapevines is a tangled vine itself
16.3 Antarctic rocks can help sort stone tools from natural lookalikes
17. Culture
17.1 Nigel Biggar tries—and fails—to rehabilitate the British Empire
17.2 “I Have Some Questions for You” raises lots of them
17.3 Three stories of collusion during the second world war
17.4 The defiant artistry of 19th-century African-American potters
17.5 Marcel Marceau was a giant of an underappreciated art form
18. Economic & financial indicators
18.1 Economic data, commodities and markets