The Economist - 14 March 2015

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Contents
11 The world this week Asia
40 Myanmar
Leaders The Kokang conflict
15 Latinos in the United 41 Myanmar and China
States Border troubles
How to fire up America 42 Japan’s asylum laws
16 Global manufacturing No entry
Made in China? 42 Tajikistan
17 French politics Central Asia’s Putin
The resistible rise of 43 India’s social ills
Marine Le Pen How to damage India’s Israel’s election
17 Britain’s economy reputation Bibi Netanyahu’s failures
outweigh his achievements.
Spurious George 46 Banyan
Israelis should back Yitzhak
On the cover 18 Risk and data Trouble in ASEAN Herzog to be the next prime
The rise of Latinos is a huge A tricky business minister: leader, page 20. Bibi
opportunity. America 20 Israel’s election China is favourite to hang on but
mustn’t squander it: leader, Bibi’s a bad deal 47 Infrastructure faces a serious challenge,
page 15. One American in six Airport frenzy pages 26-28
is now Hispanic. By mid-
Letters 48 Organ transplants
century it will be more than
one in four. Our special 22 On Brazil, pensions, the New sources
report, after page 48, Olympics, poverty, Grover 48 The economy
explains how that will give Cleveland, apps Worrying data
America a big dose of youth
and energy, just as its global Briefing Special report: America’s
competitors are greying
26 The Israeli election Hispanics
Can Binyamin Netanyahu From minor to major
win again? After page 48
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27 How to build an Israeli
Daily analysis and opinion to coalition
Middle East and Africa
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aupdpiole amnedn vti dtheeo ,p arnindt a e daitiiloyn c,h palruts Mind-boggling maths 49 Egypt and Africa The French right France’s
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32 Criminal justice
Lessons from Ferguson
Europe
33 Iran and the bomb
53 French politics
Dear Ayatollah
Looking more respectable
33 Bankruptcy and the
Volume 414 Number 8929 54 Young Eurosceptics
economy
Budding toughies
Published since September 1843 A fresh start
to take part in "a severe contest between 55 Russia and Chechnya
intelligence, which presses forward, and 34 Houston’s economy The Caucasian connection Corruption in Latin America
an unworthy, timid ignorance obstructing Life in the sprawl Despite an epidemic of
our progress." 56 Ukraine’s bail-out scandals, the region is making
36 Lexington
Editorial offices in London and also: When relief looks barely progress against graft, page 37
Atlanta, Beijing, Berlin, Brussels, Cairo, Paying fealty to farmers enough
Chicago, Hong Kong, Johannesburg, Lima,
Los Angeles, Mexico City, Moscow, New Delhi, 56 German demography
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37 Corruption in Latin 57 Charlemagne
America Your flexible friend
Democracy to the rescue?
39 Bello
The Pacific Alliance
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8 Contents The Economist March 14th 2015
Britain Science and technology
58 The economy 79 Horizontal gene transfer
Bargain basement Genetically modified
people
59 Scottish politics
Downtrodden Labour 80 Open-source health apps
Kitted out
60 Bagehot
George Osborne: not just a 80 Chasing the sun
hatchet man A solar-powered plane
takes off
81 Renewable energy
International
Factory Asia China’s Looks swell Your ancestor was a fungus
61 Modern slavery
dominance in manufacturing Our forebears routinely stole
82 Lunar science
Chained to suppliers
will endure, making genes from other species,
Making tracks
62 India’s bonded labourers
development harder for others: page 79
82 Snail sex
One brick at a time
leader, page 16. How factory
Till death us do dart
Asia works, pages 69-70. 62 Slavery and seafood
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