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DescriptionThe Economist
April 11th - 17th 2009
Inside:
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On the cover
A nuclear-free world may never come about, but there can be safety in trying:
leader, page 11. North Korea launches a rocket and makes a splash, pages 22-23
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Volume 391 Number 8626
First published in september1843
to take part in 'asevere contest between intelligence, which pressesforward, and an unworthy, timid ignorance obstructing our progress.'
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7 The world this week
Leaders
11 Getting to zero
Safe without the bomb?
12 America, Europe and Turkey
Talking Turkey
12 The G20 and the IMF Banking on the fund
13 Water rights Awash in waste
14 Banks and accounting standards
Messenger, shot
Letters
16 On the pope, illegal immigrants, advertising, China and the IMF, aircraft, Barack Obama
Briefing
22 North Korea's rocket
Making a splash
United States
25 Barack Obama's foreign policy
Two cheers and ajeer
26 The defence budget A daring punt
28 Oakland
Killing for respect
28 Conservation Prairie in the city
30 Volunteering A service nation
30 Transport systems Slower than a speeding bullet
31 Gay marriage Wedding season
32 Lexington
Reflections on Virginia Tech
The Americas
34 The Summit of the Americas
The ghost at the conference table
35 The trial of Alberto Fujimori
Peru's elected strongman bought to book
36 Venezuela's endangered democracy
Revolutionary justice
36 Chagas disease
Kiss and kill
Asia
38 Sri Lanka's war
Out of the Tigers' cage
39 Pakistan's extremists The slide downhill
39 Afghanistan's new militias
Self-defence
40 Chinese unemployment Where will all the
students go?
42 China and the G20 Taking the summit by strategy
43 Banyan
In the shade of the banyan tree
Middle East and Africa
45 The genocide in Rwanda Never again
46 Nigeria
A wobbly president
47 Southern Sudan
Fear of fragmentation
47 Iranian dissidents in Iraq
Where will they all go?
48 Iraq
Modernising the banks
Europe
49 An earthquake in Italy Death in the mountains
50 Turkey and Barack Obama Friends by the Bosporus
51 France and America Allies ofa kind
51 Denmark's prime ministers
Rasmussens abound
52 The troubled Baltics Still afloat, just
52 Spain's government Shuffle, shuffle
54 Charlemagne
A surfeit of leaders
Talking Turkey America's
public call for Turkish entry into the European Union may backfire: leader, page 12. Barack Obama's visit to Turkey, page 50. MostAmericans like having a leader whom foreigners adore. But some wish he was feared a bit more, page 25. Mr Obama willinjecta new cordialityinto relations with Latin America, page 34
How to waste less water Tradable usage rights are a good toolfor tackling the world's water problems: leader, page 13. Water shortages are growing, but not for the reasons most people think, page 59
Introducing Banyan Our new column on Asia, page 43
Contents The Economist April 11th 2009
The IMF's next mission The International Monetary Fund is getting more resources to supporttheworld economy. If itis to succeed, it needs more reform: leader, page 12. How the fund can win the trust of emerging economies, pages
69-72
Activist investors retreat Will less-active investors give bosses more leeway to manage? PTge 6;. The investments of Japanese banks jr other Iii ms create a vicious circle, page 76
Hot air? Books on energy and globatwarming, page 83. Farming biofuels produces nitrous oxide. This is bad for the climate, page 81.
Countdown to Copenhagen, page 61
Britain
55 Local-government finances
Bustin the boonies
56 Council budgets
Less is more
56 Allotments
Take this job and shovel it
57 The Catholic church Time fora bruiser
58 Bagehot
Through a pint glass, darkly
International
59 Water
Getting scarcer
61 Climate change
Tortuous talks on global warming
Business
63 Activist investors Flight of the locusts
64 A strange new vehicle GM meets Segway
64 Spanish companies
Big in America?
65 Energy in Japan Raising the stakes
66 American broadcasting The not-so-big four
66 Edible advertisements Trading licks
67 The Airbus A400M Heavy going
68 Face value
Yuzaburo Mogi of Kikkoman finds a sauce of success
Briefing
69 The IMF
Mission: possible
70 Special Drawing Rights Held in reserve
Finance and economics
73 Financial markets Whistling in the dark
74 Buttonwood
G20: spin and substance
75 Trade finance
The cavalry of commerce75 The Federal Reserve Under threat
76 Indian banks
For I'm a jolly good fellow
76 Japanese banks A capital affair
78 Psychology and trading Stress testing
79 Economics focus Raghuram Rajan on regulation
Science and technology
80 Malaria
Resistance is useless
81 The environment Biofools
81 The dawn of the animals Ediacaran fossils
82 Neurology Wired
Books and arts
83 Energy and climate change
What to do?
84 Islam and the West What to think?
84 Ellen Johnson Sirleaf An African first
85 Lessons from ants Wisdom of crowds
85 Dorothy Wordsworth Woman on the edge
86 The baroque
High notes and curlicues
Obituary
87 Helen Levitt Photographer of New York
Economic and financial indicators
Statistics on 42 economies, plus closer looks at economic forecasts and trade in cut flowers
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