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Food markets How to store and sell more stuff (19 November 04:09) |
| Poor places need more than seeds, fertiliser or even food science IF FOOD aid is epitomised by a single image, it is that of neat bags of grain, stamped with the Stars and Stripes and labell... |
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The pros and cons of VAT A last resort (19 November 04:09) |
| Its advantages are oversold, but it is gaining adherentsLIBERALS oppose a value-added tax because it falls more heavily on the poor. Conservatives oppose it because it is a money machine. La... |
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Vehicle-scrapping subsidies (19 November 04:09) |
| As the world economy tumbled into recession, most rich countries’ governments tried to prop up ailing carmakers by dishing out cash to drivers who scrapped an old vehicle to buy a new ... |
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Vehicle telemetry Calling all cars (19 November 04:09) |
| Tapping remotely into a car’s data systems provides lots of useful servicesIN THE early hours of the morning two men are robbed at gunpoint and ordered out of their Chevrolet Tahoe. Th... |
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Conservation In wolfs clothing (19 November 04:09) |
| Wolves are being blamed for damage actually done by dogsFARMERS have never liked wolves. That is why wolves are rare where farmers are common. Fashion, though, is swinging round to the wolf&... |
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Tuna fishing Changing tides (19 November 04:09) |
| The bluefin tuna is still being managed badly. A trade ban is on the cardsIN A world where wildlife is under increasing pressure, good management can mean the difference between survival and... |
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Sex and pharmaceuticals Arousing interest (19 November 04:09) |
| The search continues for a pill that will lift a woman’s libidoBACK in the 1990s a drug firm called Pfizer thought it had a treatment for angina. Unfortunately, the new medicine failed... |
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Award Gulliver (19 November 04:09) |
| Gulliver, our blog on business travel, won the award for innovation at this year’s Business Travel Journalism Awards. ...
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Corporate crime is on the rise The rot spreads (19 November 04:09) |
| A survey reveals that desperate times have led to illegal measuresTHE recession has taken its toll on morals as well as profits. PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), a consulting and accounting fir... |
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LNG expands in Australia Explosive growth (19 November 04:09) |
| Australia is becoming one of the world’s biggest exporters of gasWALLAROOS, bandicoots and other marsupials on Barrow Island off the north-west coast of Australia will watch curiously ... |
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A spat among professional networks Class war (19 November 04:09) |
| Does local beat global in the professional-networking business?IN THE three-way fight between the biggest online professional networks—America’s LinkedIn, France’s Viadeo a... |
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The psychology of warranties Protection racket (19 November 04:09) |
| If extended guarantees are overpriced, why are they so popular?CUSTOMERS tend to agonise over the relative merits of different models of electronic goods such as digital cameras or plasma te... |
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Counterfeit handsets proliferate in China Talk is cheap (19 November 04:09) |
| Chinese firms are making and exporting ever more suspect phonesCHINESE consumers appear fixated with Apple’s iconic iPhone. It draws throngs of eager buyers in Shanghai’s Xujiahu... |
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The global crackdown on corporate bribery Ungreasing the wheels (19 November 04:09) |
| Governments around the world are making life difficult for corrupt firmsIF EVER a clash was inevitable between one country’s commercial law and another’s business culture, it wou... |
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Schumpeter Remembering Drucker (19 November 04:09) |
| Four years after his death, Peter Drucker remains the king of the management gurusIN THE normal run of things the management world is divided into dozens of mutually suspicious tribes—... |
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University students abroad And is there honey still for tea (19 November 04:09) |
| Luring foreign students is getting harderIN MEDIEVAL times, the choice was simple. A Christian man of means could enroll at one of a handful of universities, two of which were in England. Si... |
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Oklahomas economy Come home Tom Joad (12 November 04:33) |
| Not exactly a boom state, but people are returningIN THE lobby of a government building in Oklahoma City, several locals were telling a visitor about some of the assets of their state: the i... |
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Mario Draghi international regulator The restless Italian (12 November 04:33) |
| Mario Draghi has helped turn a talking shop into a pillar of the world economyIS ITALY too small for Mario Draghi? The head of the country’s central bank spent the weekend of November ... |
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American stockmarkets High-speed slide (12 November 04:33) |
| What is good for cutting-edge traders may be bad for the market as a wholeAMERICA may have been the epicentre of the global financial earthquake but it still boasts the world’s deepest... |
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Buttonwood Paper promises golden hordes (12 November 04:33) |
| Central banks and the bullion priceTWO hundred metric tonnes of gold would occupy a cube of a little more than two metres on a side; it would fit into a small bedroom. But India’s purc... |
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South Koreas recovery Leaning experience (12 November 04:33) |
| Ways to stop boom turning to bust“NEVER waste a good crisis,” says Lee Myung-bak, South Korea’s president. A good crisis, indeed. After plunging by 5.1% in the fourth quart... |
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White-collar trials Subcrime (12 November 04:33) |
| Pinning the blame for the financial crisis is not easyIT IS, as one tabloid succinctly put it, “Wall St 1, US 0.” On November 10th the first and so far only executives to face cr... |
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The world economy Dangerous froth (12 November 04:33) |
| Asset prices could push central bankers off course long before any bubbles burstTHE post-crisis challenge for central bankers has long seemed easy to describe. They must steer between the sh... |
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The fallout from GM keeping Opel The German charm offensive (12 November 04:33) |
| GM’s decision to keep Opel has left Germany fumingAFTER General Motors’ dramatic U-turn on November 3rd over the sale of its European subsidiary, Opel/Vauxhall, its chief executi... |
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Media Bulking up (12 November 04:33) |
| Comcast moves closer to creating a content-and-distribution behemothIT SEEMED for a while as though the media business had dispensed with swagger. As the markets push their companies around,... |
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State-owned enterprises Stakes and mistakes (12 November 04:33) |
| India’s government is privatising companies for the wrong reasonsWHICH flavour of condom do you prefer? Strawberry, chocolate or banana, perhaps? Prostitutes in India opted for paan, o... |
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British banks in transition The great escape (12 November 04:33) |
| Is Barclays preparing for world domination or its own break-up?BARCLAYS is the escapologist of British banking. Its quarterly results on November 10th widened the gap still more on its Briti... |
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The DNA database Slightly less big brother (12 November 04:33) |
| The vast police directory is trimmed, but only a littleAT THE start of the 20th century, Scotland Yard’s fingerprint bureau began a quiet revolution in policing. A hundred years on, de... |
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Britains economic outlook Still overcast but brightening (12 November 04:33) |
| There are promising signs that the economy is improvingTHE revelation in late October that Britain stayed in recession in the third quarter dampened spirits, the more so since France and Ger... |
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Gordon Brown and the Tobin tax Desperate measures (12 November 04:33) |
| The prime minister’s flirtation with an idea whose time never seems to comeIT WAS, veterans of economic summitry noted, the kind of idea a French minister would once have floated simpl... |
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Public opinion on Afghanistan Hearts and minds (12 November 04:33) |
| Voters are losing faith but their politicians are not, yetOF ALL the feats performed by the Sun, such as supposedly deciding the 1992 general election, evoking sympathy for Gordon Brown is t... |
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The UN and corruption Extracting teeth and other things (12 November 04:33) |
| A new coalition campaigns to stop practitioners of graft paying the price TRY to work out what these states have in common: Algeria, Angola, China, Egypt, Iran, Pakistan, Russia, Venezuela a... |
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Banyan Barack Obamas Asian adventure (12 November 04:33) |
| The president seems better at reassuring America’s enemies than its friendsASIANS complain that when George Bush chose Iraq and terror ism as his main arenas in foreign affairs, it was... |
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Japans government Out of tune (12 November 04:33) |
| The Democrats’ debut has been worryingly unharmonious—and the “bond vigilantes” are starting to make groaning noises, tooYUKIO HATOYAMA, Japan’s prime minister,... |
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Venezuela and Colombia Jaw-jaw war (12 November 04:33) |
| A hundred years of bombastHUGO CHAVEZ’S belligerent rhetoric trades at a substantial discount. So when on November 8th he announced during his weekly television show that VenezuelaR... |
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Public morality in Brazil Hemlines and headlines (12 November 04:33) |
| Less licentious than it sometimes looksON OCTOBER 22nd Geyse Arruda was escorted from the campus of Bandeirante University, a private college in a Sao Paulo suburb, her thighs shrouded by a ... |
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The horse genome Riding high (05 November 07:30) |
| The DNA of the domesticated horse shows evolution at workTHE genomes of many mammals have now been completed, including the cow, the dog, the chimpanzee and, of course, the human. This week ... |
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Charlemagne Blairs unbalancing act (05 November 05:20) |
| Lessons from the unedifying fight over top Brussels jobsIN THE end, Tony Blair’s great European adventure seems to have been a balancing act too far. As prime minister, Mr Blair built ... |
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Award Philip Coggan (05 November 04:31) |
| Philip Coggan, our Buttonwood columnist, was named “Journalist of the year-pensions issues (trade)” at the 2009 State Street Press Awards in Britain. ...
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Failed financial firms The bust that worked (05 November 04:31) |
| CIT’s bankruptcy fuels the debate about resolving financial failuresCIT might just be that rarest of things: a financial-services firm that emerges from bankruptcy largely intact. The ... |
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Monetary policy Leaders and laggards (05 November 04:31) |
| Central banks pick different paths back to normalityCENTRAL banks in the rich world cut interest rates in lockstep in 2008 as the world economy spiralled. Their paths back to normal interest... |
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Contingent capital CoCo nuts (05 November 04:31) |
| Lloyds is first out of the gate with a new kind of capitalMENTION hybrids these days, and most people think of fuel-efficient cars. In banking, however, the word has less pleasant connotatio... |
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Buttonwood Exit followed by a bear (05 November 04:31) |
| The dilemmas facing policymakersWHEN the fire is raging, it is no time to worry about water damage. Central banks and governments have flooded the system with monetary and fiscal stimulus, d... |
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Hong Kongs property market Flat out (05 November 04:31) |
| A boom gathers momentumHAVING seen the damage caused by property bubbles, Hong Kong officials are determined not to have a repeat on their own patch. Last month the territory’s de fact... |
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Indias gold purchase Adornment and investment (05 November 04:31) |
| India is eager for the IMF’s bullionIF YOU count bangles, necklaces, anklets and other pieces of jewellery, India is the largest repository of gold in the world, according to the World... |
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Rural job guarantees Faring well (05 November 04:31) |
| India’s grand experiment with public works enjoys a moment in the sunAMIT KUMAR must be one of the few bankers in the world turning away depositors. The manager of a village bank in th... |
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Clarification Home schooling (05 November 04:31) |
| In “An inspector calls” (October 24th) we said the number of home-schooled children known to social services included disabled children. The author of the official inquiry into t... |
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Dating in the downturn Well met by clublight (05 November 04:31) |
| What online-dating sites are learning from pick-up artistsIN A dark underground room in central London, a group of men scribble intently in notebooks. They are in a class on “how to be... |
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Drugs policy Blinded by science (05 November 04:31) |
| An outspoken scientist is dumped, leaving the government in a mess“THE Nutty Professor”, as David Nutt is known in the Sun and other newspapers, has never been far from controver... |
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Reforming parliamentary expenses The never-ending story (05 November 04:31) |
| Those charged with fixing a discredited system are taking their timeIF THE next general election takes place in May, as is expected, a year will have elapsed since MPs were shamed by revelat... |
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