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The Economist April 27th 2013. 3
6 The world this week
Leaders
11 Affirmative action
12
Time to scrap it
Work and the young
Generation jobless
13 Italy
Red Letta day
13 Chemical weapons in
Syria
Asia
37 Pakistan's election
The N is nigh
38 Leaving Afghanistan
The big retrograde
39 Mining in Indonesia
Herding wildcats
39 Japan and its neighbours
For whom the belltolls
40 The Bay of Bengal
New bay dawning
Acid test
14 Cyprus
On the cover
Time to scrap affirmative
action: leader, page 11.
America's pending Supreme
Court decisions on diversity
at universities, page 23.
Black empowerment in South
Africa has not worked well,
page 25. Malaysia's Never
Ending Policy, page 26.
Measuring the gains of
America's civil-rights
movement, page 77
41 Health-tare reform
Letters
42 The new Rhodes scholars?
Young China hands
42 Infrastructure boom
Feeling your pain
16 On Margaret Thatcher,
Cambodia, the Bitcoin
Going underground
Briefing
23 Affirmative action in
America...
Unequal protection
25 ...in South Africa
Fool's gold
26 ...in Malaysia
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Youth unemptoyment
The number ofyoung people
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United States: leader, page 12.
What lies behind this epidemic
ofjoblessness? And what can
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Middle East and Africa
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28 After the marathon
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47 Nigeria's insurgency
Ever bloodier
48 Syria's civil war...
Yet another massacre
29 Cities and data
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By the numbers
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Italy The new government
looks quite promising, butits
tenure should be brief: leader,
page 13. What Enrico Letta
means for Italy, page 49
Crossing a red line
Too frisky
30 Aid policy
HeLping whom, exactly?
31 College sports
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31 Gun control
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The Americas
35 Paraguay's elections
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36 Power in Argentina
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36 Justice in Guatemala
Playing for time
Europe
49 Italy's new government
Letta in post
50 Serbia and Kosovo
Balkan breakthrough
50 Gay marriage in France
Rainbow warriors
51 Chechnya and Dagestan
Islamists in Russia
52 Housing in Spain
Mortgaged to the hitt
Iran Conservatives
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52 German tax evasion
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The Economist April 27th 2013
70 Buttonwood
Overtrading
71 Zimbabwe alter
hyperinflation
In dollars they trust
72 Free exchange
Consumer choice
Britain
54 The economy
Better than nothing
55 Privatisations
The Last of the silver
55 Doping racehorses
Giddy nags
56 Bagehot
Red Ed's march
Low-cost
vi e
ng
For Bjorn Kjos, Norwegian Air
Shuttle's boss, the routeto
success may be Ryanair-style
ruthlessness, page 61
Chile's ageing copper
industry Mining has enriched
Chile. Butits future is
precarious, page 63
Science and technology
International
58 Youth unemployment
Generation jobless
60 McDonald's University
Fries with that?
Business
61 European airlines
Here come the Vikings
62 The Tennessee Valley
Authority
Barack Thatcher?
63 Mining in Chile
Copper solution
63 Corporate governance
London's good name
64 Casual games
King seizes throne
64 Entrepreneurs in
Australia
Starting up Down Under
65 Apple
Tim Cook's cash card
66 Schumpeter
Learning from Big Science
73 3D printing
A new brick in the Great
Wall
74 Treating cancer with
radioactive bacteria
Three wrongs make a right
74 Private space flight
Orbital in orbit
75 Entomology
Bad beehaviour
Can economists understand
people? A Nobel prizewinner
argues for an overhaul of the
theory of consumer choice:
Free exchange, page 72
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77 Bunker HM
Shots across America
77 Affirmative action
Sharing the prize
78 America and the second
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84 Economic and financial
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Finance and economics
67 The Cypriot economy
Through a glass, darkly
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69 China's subsidies
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