The

Economist


April 19th - 24th, 2009

This magazine is in OK condition.
USED, white label on cover over address
Defects:  Cover torn along staple line, but still attached
Some sort of unknown porous crud on front cover (from shipping, maybe adhesive)
Cover with crease in it

The upside:  excellent reading, informative & a great deal!!
Super deal price!!


On the cover
If Jacob Zuma avoids becoming.caricature of African leadership, he could bring change to the whole continent: leader, page 11. country will he make South Africa? Pages 23-25. Three books map, with varying degrees of a grand disappointment, the recent path of the rainbow nation, page 88
Daily news and views: news analysis, online-only columns, blot's on politics, economics and travel, and a correspondent's diary
Country briefings: intelligence on 82 countries
Economist.com/ countries
E-mail: newsletters and Mobile Edition
Economist.com/email
Research: search articles since 1997, background briefings
Economy st.com/research
Printedition: available online by 7pm London time each Thursday
Economist.com/print
Volume 391 Number 8627
First published in September]843
to take part in 'a severe contest between intelligence, which presses forward, and an unworthy, timid ignorance obstructing our progress."
Editorial offices in London and also: Bangkok, Beijing, Berlin, Brussels, Cairo, Chicago, Delhi, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Jerusalem, Johannesburg, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Moscow, New York, Paris,
San Francisco, She Paulo, Tokyo, Washington
7 The world this week
Leaders
11 South Africa's election Africa's next Big Man
12 Democracy in India India's jumbo election
13 American banks
Payback time
13 Technology and medicine Fixing health care
14 Housing Castles of sand
Letters
16 On General Electric, credit-default swaps, Germany, co-operatives, crime, San Francisco, knees, politicians
Briefing
23 South Africa's elections Voting for the people's man
United States
27 Immigration reform
All together now
28 Earthquakes California's fears
28 The ex-president Back in the saddle
30 Uranium mining
In Virginia's glowing hills
30 Moonshine Lightning strikes
32 North Carolina Pipettes at the ready
32 Jazz diplomacy
Perfect pitch
34 Statewatch: Iowa
It's all relative
36 Lexington
Obama derangement syndrome
The Americas
39 Cuba and the United States
It takes two to rumba
40 Bolivia's Evo Morales Fasting and dealing
40 Mexico and climate change
What's hot, green and Mexican?
42 Brazil and climate change
Dancing with the bear
Asia
43 Thailand's political crisis Dousing the flames
44 Fiji's constitutional coup Puppet show
44 Indonesia's election results
One winner, many Losers
45 Health care in China
Will patients be rewarded?
45 Dialysis in China
Free for now
46 India's election
The untouchable and the unattainable
50 Banyan
The trouble with the king
Middle East and Africa
51 Somalia
The perils of piracy
52 The Gulf of Guinea Tackling another danger zone
52 Egypt versus Hizbullah
Hating each other
54 Congo's economy
Too big to fail
Special report: Health care and technology
Medicine goes digital After page 54
Europe
55 France's president Super-Sarkozy falls to earth
56 Italy and Switzerland
A movable border
56 Greece's troubled government
An Aegean fog
57 The German economy Clunk-clicked
57 Croatia and Europe
A Balkan state in balk
58 Protests in Moldova and Georgia
Street scenes
59 Charlemagne
The European Union and China
3
India'sjum bo election The worst possi b le o,vay of choosing an Indian govcrnment—apart from all the others: leader, page 12. An "untouchable" leader plans to take India by storm in the general election that began this week, page 46. A buyerforIndia's Enron, page 68
Hating Obama The president is driving some people mad. That may be to his advantage in the shortterm: Lexington, page 36. Immigration reform will hardly make him more popular with the right,
page 27

Piracy Western navies are
trying to stop the Somali brigands. They may only
displace them, or makethem nastier, page 51. Beware the waters off Nigeria too, page 52
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