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China and the world economy

• Crosstown traffic
  

  The global economy is slowing. For one of its biggest members, that is good news (66)

• • • With China, "things are either great or they are a disaster"
    • Free exchange
    • (5)

Leadership of the IMF

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  Time for a change

  Why a euro-zone finance minister, even a talented one, should not lead the IMF (51)

• • • Another European?
    • Free exchange
    • (7)
  • • Economics by invitation: Would should lead the IMF?
  • • Stanley Fisching for a job
    • Free exchange
    • (10)
  • • What does Mr Tharman do when his kids run out of pocket money?
    • Free exchange
    • (9)

Europe's debt saga

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  World's worst menu

  Greece has no good options left (195)

• • • The A-Team, Greece and mud volcanoes
    • Free exchange
    • (18)
  • • Pressure mounts on Greece from its EU partners to sell state assets
    • (97)
  • • The European Central Bank could wreck the euro zone
    • (34)
  • • Economist asks: Will Greece default in 2011?
    • (10)

The economics of brain drain

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  Drain or gain?

  Poor countries can end up benefiting when their brightest citizens emigrate (31)

• • • A reverse brain drain in Malaysia
    • (49)
  • • Human capital increasingly votes with its feet (Jun 2008)
    • (11)

Ireland's chances of recovery

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  Celtic cross

  A return to decent growth is essential (8)

• • • How deep is the economic mire? (Nov 2010)
    • (32)
  • • Obama’s message of hope could be useful in Europe
    • (59)

Japan's economy and the tsunami

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  Casting about for a future

  The Japanese economy is recovering faster than expected from disaster. Can broader reform come quickly too? (14)

• • • A rare reformist zeal is emerging in post-quake Japan. The government ignores it at the country’s peril
    • (12)
  • • Japanese carmakers are shaken. That helps their rivals
    • (13)

America's recovery

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  Perking up

  Job creation is finally reaching respectable levels - Free exchange (21)

• • • Cheap houses, poor workers
    • Buttonwood's notebook
    • (21)
  • • American manufacturing jobs
    • Free exchange
    • (3)
  • • America's recovery: Special factors or new trend?
    • Free exchange
    • (15)

Services-led growth in developing countries

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  Revving up the pace

  The last in our series on "petri dish economies" asks how Kenya can boost its growth rate (4)

• • • Can poor countries leapfrog manufacturing and grow rich on services?
    • (17)
  • • Clever services on cheap mobile phones make a powerful combination—especially in poor countries
    • (19)

America's debt debate

• 
  The Blair House Project

  The White House and Republicans agree on where to go. They now have to work out how to get there (16)

• • • Medicare has a lemons problem
    • Free exchange
    • (20)
  • • Deficit "triggers" sometimes work
    • (6)
  • • Discussion: Do fiscal rules instill prudence or reflect it?

Volatile resource prices

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  A rocky patch

  Despite a setback the raw-materials boom is not over yet (11)

• • • Asia is at the mercy of prices set elsewhere
    • (2)
  • • Buttonwood: Which story best explains market moves?
    • (7)
  • • The Economist commodity-price index

Punishing financial misbehaviour

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  Guilty as charged

  A hedge fund boss goes down (6)

• • • Cracking down on insider trading
    • Schumpeter
    • (9)
  • • Audio: Wall Street reacts to the verdict
  • • Seeking new hedge-fund ambassadors

Fixing banking

• 
  Unfinished business

  Banking is a lot safer than it was. Sadly more still needs to be done (12)

• • • A special report on international banking
    • (35)
  • • Audio: International banking faces post-crisis unheaval

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  Goldman Sachs gets burned by, er, Goldman Sachs (9)

• The not-so-beautiful game

  Offside

  Time to blow the whistle and put the right to host the World Cup on eBay (30)

• Gambling

  Poker-faced

  A new study argues that poker is a game of skill, not chance. (21)

• World economic growth

  When the poor catch up

  The challenges of growing richer (3)