2023-05-18-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 Joe Biden’s global vision is too timid and pessimistic
2.2 China and the West take a step to ease Africa’s debt crisis
2.3 The humiliation of Thailand’s regime is a boost for Asian democracy
2.4 The fight over the future of global payments
2.5 Trade in dinosaur fossils is good for science
3. Letters
3.1 Letters to the editor
4. By Invitation
4.1 Tedros Adhanom, head of the WHO, on the lessons from covid-19
4.2 Abebe Aemro Selassie on Africa’s brutal funding squeeze
5. Briefing
5.1 Henry Kissinger explains how to avoid world war three
6. Europe
6.1 Recep Tayyip Erdogan beats his challenger as Turkey votes
6.2 Volodymyr Zelensky’s European trip secures a lot more military backing
6.3 How a front-line city became Ukraine’s romantic capital
6.4 Fears about the reactors at Zaporizhia continue to mount
6.5 For Giorgia Meloni, supporting Ukraine has some useful benefits
6.6 Meet the lefty Europeans who want to deliberately shrink the economy
7. Britain
7.1 Britain’s Public Order Act goes too far
7.2 Why are more British adults still living with their parents?
7.3 The Inflation Reduction Act is turning heads among British businesses
7.4 The missing ingredient in Britain’s new law on tenants’ rights
7.5 Aboard Britain’s first commercial self-driving bus
7.6 Want to be a nun? You need to pass these tests
7.7 Truss Tour: 2023
8. United States
8.1 The fault lines in America’s China policy
8.2 What do George Santos, R. Kelly and FIFA have in common?
8.3 Pinball is booming in America, thanks to nostalgia and canny marketing
8.4 Anoint my caverns with oil
8.5 Congress should fund the BLM (no, not that one)
8.6 San Francisco’s “woke maths” experiment
8.7 It turns out that Democrats bus migrants, too
9. Middle East & Africa
9.1 Iran’s proxies in the Middle East remain a powerful force
9.2 America’s new embassy in Beirut is vast
9.3 Looking for the African middle class? Head to the bus park
9.4 Foreign airlines in Nigeria are frustrated by the blocking of their funds
9.5 Africa faces a mounting debt crisis
10. The Americas
10.1 Latin America’s left-wing experiment is a warning to the world
10.2 Ecuador’s president dissolves Congress to avoid impeachment
11. Asia
11.1 Can the West win over the rest of the world?
11.2 The Taliban go big on animal welfare
11.3 Thailand’s pro-democracy parties trounce the military establishment
11.4 Narendra Modi’s party takes a beating in Karnataka
11.5 Myanmar’s conflict is dividing South-East Asia
12. China
12.1 Why China fears Starlink
12.2 China is unusually secretive about its space programme
12.3 Xiongan is Xi Jinping’s pet project
13. International
13.1 Europe can’t decide how to unplug from China
14. Special report
14.1 As payments systems go digital, they are changing global finance
14.2 A digital payments revolution in India
14.3 The old bank/card model is still entrenched in the rich world
14.4 The promise of crypto has not lived up to its initial excitement
14.5 Central-bank digital currencies are talked about more than coming to fruition
14.6 Could digital-payments systems help unseat the dollar?
14.7 There are risks but also big potential benefits from digital payments
14.8 Video: insights from the author
14.9 Sources and acknowledgments
15. Business
15.1 Businesses are in for a mighty debt hangover
15.2 The aviation industry wants to be net zero—but not yet
15.3 The wind-turbine industry should be booming. Why isn’t it?
15.4 Businesses’ bottleneck bane
15.5 Mukesh Ambani returns to the spotlight
15.6 America’s culture wars threaten its single market
16. Finance & economics
16.1 The financial system is slipping into state control
16.2 What America does after a debt-ceiling disaster
16.3 Is China’s recovery about to stall?
16.4 LIBOR will at last be switched off in June
16.5 How to invest in artificial intelligence
16.6 Robert Lucas was a giant of macroeconomics
17. Science & technology
17.1 The market for dinosaur fossils is booming
17.2 Artists hope to turn selfies into comets
17.3 Humans shed genetic information everywhere they go
17.4 The coming years will be the hottest ever
17.5 Insects could help turn beer waste into beef
18. Culture
18.1 In 1983 Arthur Miller directed one of his best-known plays in China
18.2 “Fancy Bear Goes Phishing” charts the evolution of hacking
18.3 In Emma Cline’s new novel, a young woman loses control of her life
18.4 Wings v tenders: the choice says more about you than you think
18.5 In “Fatherland”, an author reckons with his Nazi grandfather
18.6 Quiet artworks sometimes make the deepest impressions
19. Economic & financial indicators
19.1 Economic data, commodities and markets
