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Indian health care | Lessons from a frugal innovator

Poverty, geography and poor infrastructure mean that India faces perhaps the world’s heaviest disease burden, ranging from infectious diseases, the traditional scourge of the poor, to diseases of affluence such as diabetes and hypertension. The public[...]

New aspects of American banking regulation are unveiled | More than just repairs

TIM GEITHNER has not had an easy time of it, but he is probably too busy to dwell on his tribulations. Three days after unveiling a plan to cleanse banks of their troubled loans and securities, America’s treasury secretary was back in front of a congressional[...]

Feed : economist.com  | Updated : the 30/03

katewoods : "the BIG American State."

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How China sees the world

IT IS an ill wind that blows no one any good. For many in China even the buffeting by the gale that has hit the global economy has a bracing message. The rise of China over the past three decades has been astonishing. But it has lacked the one feature[...]

Feed : economist.com  | Updated : the 20/03

katewoods : "ah the chinese!"

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Bernard Madoff's not-so-grand finale

SURELY a drama this dark deserved a more explosive finale. A previous wave of financial fraud produced many an entertaining courtroom battle, featuring the likes of Enron’s Jeffrey Skilling and Tyco’s Dennis Kozlowski. But Bernard Madoff has robbed[...]

Feed : economist.com  | Updated : the 13/03

katewoods : "will he go to jail?"

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Rich countries are racking up debt, while developing countries are borrowing less

AMERICA, Britain and China are among the many countries that have adopted spend-now-pay-later policies to stave off economic disaster. But giant fiscal stimuluses, tax cuts and bail-outs are weighing heavily on public finances. In a paper prepared for[...]

Feed : economist.com  | Updated : the 10/03

katewoods : "pay later when you're dead."

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Companies bailed out by America's government have lost half their value in 2009

AMERICA'S government has bailed out over 20 ailing companies since the demise of Lehman Brothers in September. And once, it seems, is often not enough. On Monday March 2nd AIG received a handout of $30 billion, the insurer's fourth so far. For brave investors[...]

Feed : economist.com  | Updated : the 04/03

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Why the IMF is scrabbling to raise extra capital

The IMF is sharply increasing its lending capacity. It expects that more countries may need its help

Feed : economist.com  | Updated : the 19/02

katewoods : "help for the people too."

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The politics of the recession in America

FOR a man whose bumper stickers promised “Hope not Fear”, Barack Obama knows how to scare people. “If we don’t act immediately,” he told the citizens of Elkhart, Indiana on February 9th, “our nation will sink into a crisis that, at some point,[...]

Feed : economist.com  | Updated : the 12/02

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Politicians pile pressure on bailed-out RBS to abandon plans for a £1bn bonus for staff

Politicians from all sides rounded on the state-supported Royal Bank of Scotland yesterday as the row intensified over the failed bank's apparent determination to share £1bn of bonuses among staff.

Feed : guardian.co.uk  | Updated : the 09/02

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Protectionism in Britain's labour market

THE Lindsey oil refinery is a 500-acre leviathan of soaring towers and contorted pipes that looks as if it has been scooped out of America’s rustbelt and dropped on an otherwise bucolic Lincolnshire landscape. Outside the plant from January 28th was[...]

Feed : economist.com  | Updated : the 05/02

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