The Economist

The world's expanding waistline The shape of things to come Dec 11th 2003 From The Economist print edition The world is too fat. Too bad WHEN the world was a simpler place, the rich were fat, the poor were thin, and right-thinking people worried about how to feed the hungry. Now, in much of the world, the rich are thin, the poor are fat, and right-thinking people are worrying about obesity. Evolution is mostly to blame. It has designed mankind to cope with deprivation, not plenty. People are

Robert Mugabe off the hook as usual This article entitled « Robert Mugabe off the hook as usual » was published in THE ECONOMIST, a British weekly magazine, on September 12th, 2009, a few months before the Jacob Zuma’s election as South Africa. Elections that may be a new hope towards the future of the democracy in Africa. The leader writer seems to be sceptic concerning the diplomacy in Zimbabwe, because of the absolutely power and control of Mugabe throughout Zimbabwe. So, in a first part we

L’article parut dans le journal The Economist du 16 avril 2011 est intitulé Fling wide the gates. L’auteur décrit les difficultés des entreprises étrangères de s’implanter en Inde. L’inde est un pays dans lequel il est difficile d’obtenir des visas ou des investissements pour les entreprises alors que pour relancer la faible économie intérieure et ses besoins d’investissements, il faut importer du capital, en particulier les investissements directs étranger. Cependant, en 2010, l’Inde avais 24

année Sharing out the profits Efforts to improve the working of the labour market through the reform of trade unions and the tax and social security systems will not work overnight. But there may be a short-cut to making wages more flexible: profit-sharing. Earlier this year, the government published a green paper on profit-related pay, which proposed tax incentives to encourage workers and firms to introduce profit-sharing. The plan draws on the thinking of an American economist, Professor Martin

Kal and published in the Economist in 2008. We can see a big white and old man with long and white hair. He wear a long and blue jacket with blue star on his wrist. His pants have red and white stripe. With his right hand he hang a big hat that was drawn star and stripe. This man wearing clothes which represent le American flag. This cartoon deal with immigration. This old man is Uncle Sam; he often personified the United-States in political cartoons. Uncle Sam symbolize the government and its power

[pic] PARTIE 1. Compte rendu en français du texte (227 mots) The cult of the faceless boss (from the Economist November 14th, 2009) Le texte écrit le 14 novembre 2009, extrait du journal The Economist, évoque comme son titre l’indique les cultes des dirigeants d’entreprise anonymes. On compare d’abord le dirigeant connu, souvent égocentrique, imbus de lui-même et agissant souvent pour son propre intérêt au dirigeant anonyme, modeste, agissant prioritairement pour les intérêts de

 A THIRD INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION As manufacturing goes digital, it will change out of all recognition, says Paul Markillie. And some of the business of making things will return to rich countries. One of the big trade fairs held in Frankfurt, EuroMold, which shows machines for making prototypes of products, exhibits no oily machinery . Hall after hall is full of clean American, Asian, and European machine tools, highly automated. Most of their operators sit in front of computer screens .

Subject: The rapid growth of India creates both problems and opportunities for business in the rest of the world. Identify and assess these problems and opportunities in relation to India. Words count: 2,353 Contents: Introduction..................................................................................................................3 I. Consequences of the emergence of India for trade in other economies and regions...........................................................

Orwell got it wrong. In the developed world, it is not the state that has ushered in a "Big Brother" society but society itself. Every day, people are adopting new technologies that trade a small amount of their privacy for greater convenience and security : credit cards, small cards in electronic tollbooths, customer loyalty cards, cash-withdrawal machines... As for surveillance cameras, they have become so widely accepted that they have bred a genre of mass entertainment in the form of so-called reality

17th 2006 From Economist.com One of the most influential economists of the 20th century has died AFP Get article background MILTON FRIEDMAN won the John Bates Clark Medal, awarded to an outstanding American economist under the age of 40, in 1951. Many consider it harder to win than a Nobel Prize. One of the measures of his greatness is that when he got it, he still had not done any of the work for which he would become most famous. Still to come were the permanent-income hypothesis, his groundbreaking