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The Economist February 8th 2014Contents
On the coverThe world economy will havea bumpy 2014. But therecovery is not at risk, page11. Investors have beenforced to reassess their rosyview, page 67. The Fed may be"tapering" but central banksin Japan and Europe are stilleasing, page 68
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8 The world this week
Leaders11 The global economy
The worldwide wobble
12 ImmigrationBarack Obama,depor ter-in-chief
12 The EuropeanCommissionLagarde for president
14 China's env-ironmentA small breath of fresh air
16 Organised crimeDealing with the devil
Letters18 On livestock and
emissions, California,technology and jobs,algorithms
Briefing
23 The great expulsionHow America deports
24 Deported MexicansBordering on cruelty
United States27 The farm bill
A trillion in the trough
28 TradeWhen Harry mugged Barry
29 Obamacare and jobsInsured and inactive
29 College sportsUnions for gladiators
30 Immigration reformA Republican plan
30 Assortative matingSex, brains and inequality
31 Making heroin saferHoffman's habit
31 The origins of manA debate at the CreationMuseum
34 LexingtonZero-sum politics
The Americas35 El Salvador's gangs
Breaking good
36 BelloDilma's tight skirt
38 Canada, America and oilA pipeline runs through it
38 The media in EcuadorDrawn and quartered
Asia39 Politics in Myanmar
Not so fast
40 Pakistan and the TatibanJawing with the enemy
40 Crime and politics inBangladeshBang bang club
41 Japan's NHKThe ties that bind
42 BanyanThailand awaiting theendgame
China43 The party and the media
Learning to spin
44 Environmental reformTransparency in the haze
44 Internal tradeIt's a continent, a ctually
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Middle East and Africa
45 Manufacturing in AfricaAn awakening giant
46 Somalia's civil warPushing across borders
46 Sanctions against IsraelA burgeoning campaign
47 The media in Saudi ArabiaBeating the censor
48 Libyan footballSomething to celebrate
48 Repression in EgyptThe same old btanket
Europe49 German foreign policy
No more shirking
50 France and AmericaMr Hollande goes toWashington
51 Spain's rightA new Partido Té?
51 Italian justiceUntiinely
52 Potish energy policyA different Energiewende
53 CharlemagneThe EU and Ukraine
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America's great expulsionDeporting record numbers ofimmigrantsis a costly way tomake America less dynamic:leader, page 12. Barack Obamahas presided over one of thela rgest peacetimeoutflows ofpeople in America's history,pages 23-26. The expulsionpolicytoward migrants carriesa big human cost, page 24
Lagarde for president If everthe European Union needed acompetent reformer with newideas, it is now: leader, page 12
Chi na's environmentIts government gives thecountry's Davids a sling to useagainst polluting Goliaths:leader, page 14. Steps towardsmore openness, page 44
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The business-school bubbleThey are better at analysingdisruptiveinnovation thandealing with it: Schumpeter,page 66. The rise of MOOCsupend the economics of highereducation: Free exchange,page 74
BP The British oil conmany issafer, smaller, sadder andwiser sinceits disaster in theGulf of Mexico, page
Handsome cyclists A newstudy suggests a link betweencyclists' looks and theirperformance, page 76
Britain
55 Mixed-race nationInto the melting pot
56 Booze-free barsShaken not slurred
57 BagehotDavid Lammy, urbanphoenix
International58 Government-to-
government tradeUnbundling the state
59 The winter OtympicsHot or cool?
59 Web addressesThe narre game
60 The ivory tradeUp in smoke
Business61 BP
A reduced giant62 Microsoft's new boss
Inside job63 Google, the EU and
antitrustSearch over
63 The suit businessWho'll wear the trousers?
64 Corporate bedfellowsComparing big companies
64 Trouble at the PanamaCanalDead locks
65 Cable televisionCan CNN entertain?
66 SchumpeterBusiness-school woes
Finance and economics
67 Turmoilin financialmarketsGoldilocks and the bears
68 Global monetary policyEurope and Japan hold out
69 ButtonwoodA new world for bonds
70 Brazil's banksPast is epilogue
70 Fees for hedge funds andprivate equityGoing clown
71 Executive share optionsUnintended consequences
71 Commodity pricesFixing the fix
72 Slums and social mobilityDown and out
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Once more, with feeling
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Elephantasia
84 Economic and financialindicatorsStatistics on 42economies, plus ourmonthly poli of forecasters
Obituary
86 Philip Seymour HoffmanTravelling through chaos
Philip Seymour HoffmanOur obituary, page 86. How tomake heroin less deadly,page 31
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