Feb 9th 2013

20120209

The world this week

The Americas

Corrections: Kathleen Wynne and Elena Borda

Ecuador’s election

The man with the mighty microphone

Paraguay

The last caudillo

The IMF and Argentina

Motion of censure

Venezuela’s economy

Out of stock

Finance & economics

Correction: Anglo Irish Bank

The redback abroad

A fresh course

Buttonwood

Beware of the bias

Ratings agencies

Victim support

RBS and Libor

The wrong stuff

South Africa’s currency

VIX inhaler no more

The euro area

Race against time

The Bank of Japan

Regime change

Free exchange

Nomencracy

Credit scores

Stat oil

Leaders

North Korea

The new capitalists

Even as another nuclear provocation looms, hope glimmers for the world’s most oppressed people

Social mobility in America

Repairing the rungs on the ladder

How to prevent a virtuous meritocracy entrenching itself at the top

Spain

Awkward questions for Rajoy

If democracy is to retain Spaniards’ trust, the country’s political parties must be reformed

China’s currency

Yuan for the money

The rise of China’s currency will change the way the world does business

Online identity

Not a dog

Businesses, not just governments, have a role to play in helping web users prove their identities

Letters

On the Senkaku islands, Guatemala's politics, Jordan, Oxfam, Israel and America, interest rates, abortion, carbon paper, the EU and football

Briefing

North Korea

Rumblings from below

A sealed and monstrously unjust society is changing in ways its despotic ruler may not be able to control

United States

The economy

Deficit-reduction disorder

The sequester and defence

Thinking the unthinkable

Presidential voting

Moving the goalposts

The census

Some other race

Ed Koch, 1924-2013

Farewell to the cheerleader

Hillary Clinton bows out

A legacy at Foggy Bottom

Murder rates

Feeling the heat

Lexington

Death in Little Rock

Asia

China and Japan

Locked on

Politics in Australia

Advantage lost

South-East Asia and China

All change at ASEAN

Pakistan

Rogue

Banyan

A decent interval

China

Desalination

Costly drops

Modern martial arts

Ain’t that a kick in the head

Economic reforms

A house divided

Middle East & Africa

A crisis in Tunisia

Murder most foul

War and peace in Mali

The battle moves to the mountains

Algeria’s oil and gas

Not so jolly

Infighting in Iran

Family feud

Trains in Nigeria

A slow but steady new chug

The Central African Republic

A shaky accord

Europe

Spain’s government

Another blow

Germany’s energy reform

Troubled turn

German politics

Schavan-freude

French foreign policy

The Bamako effect

Greece

Is a Grexit off the table?

EU and migration

The next wave?

Charlemagne

Europe à l’Hollandaise

Britain

The export drought

Better out than in

Selling conflict resolution

The peace progress

Politics and demography

Zimmer-framing the issue

The Lib Dems

Nick Clegg, comeback kid?

Greyhound racing

The final flutter

Media and telecoms

The need for speed

Improving hospitals

After the fall

Bagehot

The new-look Balls

International

Identity providers

The voucher business

Food and religion

A meaty question

Learning for the very young

Little steps

Business

Personal computing

Dell goes private

Retail technology

We snoop to conquer

Mergers

Shall we?

The Deepwater Horizon disaster

Spills and bills

Fast food in China

Yucky Kentucky

Television

Counting couch potatoes

Schumpeter

Of businessmen and ballerinas

Science & technology

The Arctic

Tequila sunset

Asteroids

It came from outer space

Meteorology

Counting raindrops

HIV and AIDS

Till death do us part

Books & arts

The Church of Scientology

In search of answers

New Indonesian fiction

Getting schooled

The future of the world

Floating hope

Harold Pinter’s “Old Times”

Ah yes, I remember it well

James Wood’s essays

Head of the class

“Sleeping Eros” at the Met