News on 3.20.04
China's economy Losing its balance Mar 18th 2004 From The Economist print edition China needs to slow its economy. But can it do so without crashing it THE effect is both magnetic and awe-inspiring. From the outside China's progress looks brilliant. The country's breakneck growth?on average 9% a year since reforms began in 1978?has been the envy of the world and a boon to global markets. In the past 25 years still-communist China has been the fastest-growing large economy in the world....
China and Taiwan Behind the mask China's economy
The budget The gambler Mar 18th 2004 From The Economist print edition AP The chancellor was right, and most observers were wrong, about economic growth. He's gambling that the same is true of the public finances Get article background GORDON BROWN'S eighth budget was about politics, not economics. Given how fast the budget deficit has been growing, a prudent custodian of the public finances would be raising taxes or cutting spending. But, with an election likely next year, neither...
The British budget The budget
The Australian economy America's ugly sister Mar 18th 2004 From The Economist print edition Australia's economy looks suspiciously like America's just before its bubble burst Get article background IN LATE 1995, when Australia had a huge current-account deficit of 5% of GDP, The Economist suggested, tongue in cheek, that Australia looked rather like Mexico before its currency collapsed at the end of 1994. We predicted that the Australian dollar would also tumble. The Aussie dollar did...
Financial markets The Australian economy
Colombia Too much of a good thing Mar 18th 2004 From The Economist print edition ?lvaro Uribe and the dangers of elected autocracy AP SELDOM has there been such a divorce between the way a political leader is viewed by outsiders and how he is seen by his own people. Abroad, ?lvaro Uribe, Colombia's president since August 2002, is viewed by many as a fascistic ogre in league with right-wing paramilitaries to trample human rights. Most Colombians, by contrast, reckon their president has...
Ingrid Betancourt and Colombia's government Colombia
Iraq, a year on A glimmering of hope Mar 18th 2004 | BAGHDAD AND CAIRO From The Economist print edition Getty Though an awful lot has gone, and is going, wrong, Iraqis are much freer, and some other Arabs a tiny bit so too SITTING cross-legged in his Abu Ghraib mosque, an island surrounded by sewage, Sheikh Yasseen Zubaie, the Sunni imam, remembers pre-war Iraq with nostalgia. ?The council used to pump out the muck every three weeks. Now they promise, and do nothing,? he says. War...
After Madrid Iraq, a year on
Spain, a week on An election bombshell Mar 18th 2004 | MADRID From The Economist print edition AFP The surprise election victory of the Socialists, under Jos? Luis Rodr?guez Zapatero, has changed Spain's?and Europe's?political map BY UNEXPECTEDLY returning the Socialists to power, the Spanish election on March 14th has delivered almost as big a shock to Spain, and the world, as the train bombings in Madrid did three days earlier. But, though many were quick to accuse Spanish voters of...
Spain Spain, a week on
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