2024-03-07-Economist Graphs
1. The world this week
1.1 Politics
1.2 Business
1.3 KAL’s cartoon
1.4 The world this week: This week’s cover
How we saw the world
2. Leaders
2.1 Leaders | And they’re off: Three big risks that might tip America’s presidential election
Third parties, the Trump trials and the candidates’ age introduce a high degree of uncertainty
2.2 Leaders | China’s National People’s Congress: Xi Jinping’s hunger for power is hurting China’s economy
A new economic plan won’t end deflation, even as he sidelines his prime minister
2.3 Leaders | Jam today, ingredients tomorrow: Britain’s budget cuts taxes on the promise of productivity gains
Jeremy Hunt has got it the wrong way round
2.4 Leaders | Course correction: How to fix the Ivy League
Its supremacy is being undermined by bad leadership
2.5 Leaders | The real skinny : A frenzy of innovation in obesity drugs is under way
Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly are printing money now. But they will not be a stagnant duopoly
3. Letters
3.1 Letters | On artificial intelligence, the Holocaust, national conservatives, Ukraine, history, investment advice: Letters to the editor
A selection of correspondence
4. By Invitation
4.1 By Invitation | Finance and development: Three presidents on how to make global finance work better for Africa
The continent needs a stronger voice and more help to help itself, say Nana Akufo-Addo, William Samoei Ruto and Hakainde Hichilema
4.2 By Invitation | Britain’s fiscal fiction: A former adviser on the 250 words Jeremy Hunt should read out at the budget
They would ensure that bad fiscal policy was bad politics, says Tim Leunig
5. Briefing
5.1 Briefing | Spoilers: Third-party candidates could be decisive in America’s election
But they have to get on the ballot first
6. Britain
6.1 Britain | Briefcase encounter: The British budget mixes sensible tinkering and fiscal fantasy
Both the Tories and Labour are making promises they cannot keep
6.2 Britain | Newbury’s finest: Vodafone tries to slim its way back to health
At the start of the century, the British telco was worth more than Apple. What happened?
6.3 Britain | Policing: Rishi Sunak’s crackdown on protests is misguided
The British government calls it mob rule. Others know it as free speech
6.4 Britain | Tough on puffs: The holes in British plans to ban cigarettes and disposable vapes
One policy is contentious, the other stupid
6.5 Britain | Unnatural selection: Why on earth would anyone become a British MP?
Sanity, at least, is no longer a formal requirement. But watch out for the letterboxes
6.6 Britain | Bagehot: What the softening of the Sun says about Britain
Two-speed liberalisation remakes a tabloid newspaper
7. Europe
7.1 Europe | Climate change: Europe’s new-look winter: floods, high sea levels and melting glaciers
People are seeing extreme weather in action, but not voting to stop it
7.2 Europe | On the wild side: Ukraine’s animals are also victims of the war
Though foxes have thrived
7.3 Europe | Abortion rules : Why France has made abortion a constitutional right
Lessons from America and Poland
7.4 Europe | General discomfort: The damage done by Russia’s hack of Germany’s defence ministry
Underlining Chancellor Scholz’s refusal to send long-range missiles to Ukraine
7.5 Europe | Quick march: Moving weapons around Europe fast is crucial for deterring Russia
But progress is slow
7.6 Europe | Charlemagne: Fifty shades of brown: how splits in Europe’s hard right sap its power
Divisions are a central feature of the populist right
8. United States
8.1 United States | Brand Old Party: Super Trump and his mighty MAGA machine
After his Super Tuesday wins, Donald Trump moves swiftly to dominate the national Republican Party
8.2 United States | Sleepy Tuesday: Donald Trump wasn’t MAGA’s only winner on Super Tuesday
The Republicans’ populist wing also flexed its muscle in down-ballot races
8.3 United States | Executive inaction: Can Joe Biden bring order to the southern border without Congress?
The president is boxed in on all sides
8.4 United States | Words of warning: Is New York rethinking its sanctuary-city status?
Its mayor casts doubt on a time-honoured policy
8.5 United States | Celestial bodies: A private company will send your ashes to the moon
The Navajo Nation wants the feds to stop them
8.6 United States | The WPATH files: Leaked discussions reveal uncertainty about transgender care
The files shed light on a controversial area of medicine that has largely retreated into the shadows
8.7 United States | Lexington: Has Ron DeSantis gone too far in Florida?
Believing he has overreached, Democrats plot a path back to relevance
9. Middle East & Africa
9.1 Middle East and Africa | Bibi blues: Joe Biden is exasperated by Israel but will not stop its war
Facing mounting pressure at home and abroad, the president bets on a hostage deal
9.2 Middle East and Africa | The war in Gaza: Ramadan could see respite for Gaza, or widening violence
Mediators are hopeful of a truce during the holy month
9.3 Middle East and Africa | Riding the CCM seesaw: A lost opportunity to reform Tanzania
The country needs a constitutional overhaul. The ruling party stands in the way
9.4 Middle East and Africa | Yesterday’s price is not today’s price: Nigeria’s currency crisis is decades in the making
Fixing it requires deep reform
9.5 Middle East and Africa | Cryptocurrencies in Africa: Why Africa is crypto’s next frontier
Cheap power is fuelling a new sort of mining boom
10. The Americas
10.1 The Americas | Lawless and disordered: The last scraps of the Haitian state are evaporating
Rape, murder and theft have long been facts of life
10.2 The Americas | The legacy of Lava Jato: Corruption is surging across Latin America
Political blowback from a period of intense anti-corruption campaigns is to blame
11. Asia
11.1 Asia | Armed and autocratic: North Korea is arming Russia and threatening war with South Korea
Kim Jong Un likes to provoke. The risks of miscalculation are rising
11.2 Asia | Stock and awe: Why are so many Indians piling into stocks?
The country is in the middle of an unprecedented retail-investment boom
11.3 Asia | Banyan: What the war in Ukraine means for Asia
Peace in East Asia hangs to a worrying extent on the outcome of the conflict
11.4 Asia | Too much butter, not enough chicken: Indian food is great. Perhaps too great
Long associated with hunger, India is now confronting an epidemic of obesity and lifestyle diseases
12. China
12.1 China | Xi’s show: China’s parliament is being used to highlight Xi Jinping’s power
The gathering reveals much about the woeful state of the country’s politics and economy
12.2 China | Eyes in the sky : China’s satellites are improving rapidly. Its army will benefit
Watch out, American warships
12.3 China | Chaguan : Why China’s confidence crisis goes unfixed
In 2024, to acknowledge public gloom is to doubt Xi Jinping
13. International
13.1 International | Poisoned Ivy: America’s elite universities are bloated, complacent and illiberal
To keep its competitive edge the Ivy League will have to change
14. Business
14.1 Business | Slim pharma: The battle over the trillion-dollar weight-loss bonanza
Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly are making blockbuster drugs. Can they maintain their lead?
14.2 Business | Nootropic kid on the block: Brain-boosting substances are all the rage
Their utility is debatable
14.3 Business | The glass-ceiling index: More women are getting onto corporate boards. Good
Our annual measure of the role and influence of women in the workforce
14.4 Business | Judgment day: OpenAI’s legal battles are not putting off customers—yet
Elon Musk, the New York Times and trustbusters all want a piece of the startup
14.5 Business | More than a headache: Can Bayer recover from its chronic pain?
The Aspirin-maker is suffering from complications of its acquisition of Monsanto
14.6 Business | Bartleby: How can firms pass on tacit knowledge?
The problem of knowing what your co-workers know
14.7 Business | Schumpeter: Apple is right not to rush headlong into generative AI
One day the Vision Pro could exploit the technology to the full
15. Finance & economics
15.1 Finance and economics | Staring down the barrel: Can Israel afford to wage war?
As the battle continues, costs are spiralling
15.2 Finance and economics | Back to the moon: Bitcoin’s price is surging. What happens next?
The cryptocurrency is up by 63% this year
15.3 Finance and economics | Another illusion: Globalisation may not have increased income inequality, after all
A new study questions the received wisdom on trends within countries
15.4 Finance and economics | Housing costs: America’s rental-market mystery
And why it may deter the Federal Reserve from cutting interest rates
15.5 Finance and economics | Urban economics: The world is in the midst of a city-building boom
Everyone, from Donald Trump and Peter Thiel to Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, is getting involved
15.6 Finance and economics | Buttonwood: How investors get risk wrong
Contrary to popular wisdom, more volatile stocks do not outperform
15.7 Finance and economics | Free exchange: An economist’s guide to the luxury-handbag market
It is plagued by counterfeits—and information asymmetries
16. Science & technology
16.1 Science and technology | Dancing in the dark: Physicists are reimagining dark matter
There might be new particles, forces and perhaps even a Dark Big Bang
16.2 Science and technology | Model baby: Scientists can help fetuses by growing tiny replicas of their organs
They could be used to improve treatments in the womb
16.3 Science and technology | Final countdown: A new technique to work out a corpse’s time of death
AI could make the work of pathologists more accurate
16.4 Science and technology | Advanced materials: Graphene, a wondrous material, starts to prove useful
It could help launch satellites
17. Culture
17.1 Culture | Zones of interest: Whoever gets the Best Picture Oscar, international films are winning
Hollywood’s growing love of foreign films says a lot about the insular industry
17.2 Culture | Back Story : Infatuation, kids, adultery: marriage is the theme of the Oscars
Together the nominees sketch a composite picture of marriage. Here it is
17.3 Culture | And you call yourself civilised?: The history of the West is not quite what you learned in school
Josephine Quinn’s new book re-examines what people think they know about civilisations
17.4 Culture | What’s in store?: Museums have a hoarding problem
Museums’ moves highlight how little of their collections are actually on view
17.5 Culture | Hillbilly elegies: Stories about the Dongbei rust belt are resonant in China
Noirish books, films and TV shows depicting hardship are popular
17.6 Culture | No solitude: Gabriel García Márquez’s novella was published against his wishes
“Until August” raises questions about authors’ consent and the literary afterlife
18. The Economist reads
18.1 The Economist reads: The best British political diaries
Five volumes full of wit, cattiness and insight into the workings of power
19. Economic & financial indicators
19.1 Economic data, commodities and markets
20. The Economist explains
20.1 The Economist explains: What is Hindutva, the ideology of India’s ruling party?
It seeks to equate Indianness with Hinduism
20.2 The Economist explains: Does generative artificial intelligence infringe copyright?
Several lawsuits, one brought by the New York Times, could soon answer the question
21. Obituary
21.1 Obituary | Age and magnificence: Iris Apfel became a fashion icon in her ninth decade
No geriatric nonsense was going to hold her back
