The Economist – 02 October 2010 (gnv64) torrent

The Economist – 02 October 2010
English | PDF | 105 pages | 12.3 Mb

The Economist is a global weekly magazine written for those who share an uncommon interest in being well and broadly informed. Each issue explores the close links between domestic and international issues, business, politics, finance, current affairs, science, technology and the arts.
In addition to regular weekly content, Special Reports are published approximately 20 times a year, spotlighting a specific country, industry, or hot-button topic. TheTechnology Quarterly, published 4 times a year, highlights and analyzes new technologies that will change the world we live in.

On the cover
India’s surprising economic miracle: leader, page 11.
Despite all the mess and chaos,India’s business is booming.
This will change the world, pages 75-77
12 Brazil’s presidential election
The handover
14 Cyberwar
The meaning of Stuxnet
14 Britain’s Fiscal Squeeze
On the tight side
16 Financial regulators
Finance’s other bosses
18 Education in America
Is it a bird? Is it a plane?

United States
33 The budget and the election
The red ink war
34 Ohio
Back and forth
35 Governors’ races
The rest of the Midwest
35 Louisiana
How now, Mr Cao?
36 Guns and state borders
Trekking north
36 Households
Cramped quarters
37 Energy in Texas
The search for power
38 Lexington
The loneliness of Barack Obama

The Americas
41 Venezuela’s legislative election
The revolution checked
42 Security in Colombia
The beginning of the end for the FARC
42 Mexico’s economy
Getting bigger

Asia
43 China
Arguing about values
44 Kyrgyzstan’s election
A vote into the unknown
45 North Korea
We three Kims of Orient are
45 Education in Vietnam
Bogged down by the party
46 Cambodia and Islamism
Courting the Cham
48 Banyan
Asia’s reactions to China

Middle East and Africa
49 Reform in Saudi Arabia
At a snail’s pace
50 Israel and Palestine
Peace talks stall
50 Syria’s dissidents
Banning travel
51 Yemen’s drug habit
You can’t easily qat it out
51 Morphine in Africa
A lot of pain

Europe
53 The sacking of Moscow’s mayor
Medvedev 1, Luzhkov 0
54 Italy’s political ruptures
Silvio the survivor
54 The Bosnian election
So this is democracy
55 Spain’s economy
Sideshow in the streets
55 Press freedom in Turkey
Don’t cross Erdogan
56 French education
A chorus of disapproval
58 Charlemagne
Overweening Brussels