Gendercide
GendercideKilled, aborted or neglected, at least 100m girls have disappeared—and the number is rising IMAGINE you are one half of a young couple expecting your first child in a fast-growing, poor country. You are part of the new middle class; your income is rising; you want a small family. But traditional mores hold sway around you, most important in the preference for sons over daughters. Perhaps
The book of Jobs
The book of JobsIt has revolutionised one industry after another. Now Apple hopes to transform three at once Illustration by Jon Berkeley APPLE is regularly voted the most innovative company in the world, but its inventiveness takes a particular form. Rather than developing entirely new product categories, it excels at taking existing, half-baked ideas and showing the rest of the world how to do t
Wrongly labelled
Wrongly labelledThe economic downturn has made it harder to speak sensibly of a region called “eastern Europe” Illustration by Peter Schrank IT WAS never a very coherent idea and it is becoming a damaging one. “Eastern Europe” is a geographical oddity that includes the Czech Republic (in the middle of the continent) but not Greece or Cyprus (supposedly “western” Europe but in the far south-east).
A menagerie of monikers
A menagerie of monikersMost labels are misleading, sometimes grossly so. Find new ones in 2010 Illustration by Peter Schrank REMEMBER the Levant? Or the Old Dominions, the Trucial States and the Far East? If so, speak softly. Labels are handy ways of sorting out countries by history or geography. But lazily conceived and out-of-date ones are offensive and misleading. Some reek of colonialism (“Bla
Toyota slips up
Toyota slips upWhat the world’s biggest carmaker can learn from other corporate turnarounds Alamy LESS than two years ago Toyota swept past an ailing General Motors (GM) to become the world's biggest carmaker. Now its newly installed boss, Akio Toyoda, the 53-year-old grandson of the founder, says that the firm could be locked in a spiral of decline. Toyota is still a hugely formidable company, an
A heated debate
Illustration by Claudio Munoz “WHAT is truth?” That was Pontius Pilate's answer to Jesus's assertion that “Everyone that is of the truth heareth my voice.” It sounds suspiciously like the modern argument over climate change. A majority of the world's climate scientists have convinced themselves, and also a lot of laymen, some of whom have political power, that the Earth's climate is changing; that
How to feed the world
Alamy IN 1974 Henry Kissinger, then America's secretary of state, told the first world food conference in Rome that no child would go to bed hungry within ten years. Just over 35 years later, in the week of another United Nations food summit in Rome, 1 billion people will go to bed hungry. This failure, already dreadful, may soon get worse. None of the underlying agricultural problems which produc
How to sink pirates
How to sink piratesThe decline of music piracy holds lessons for other industries Illustration by Claudio Munoz YOU open a window on your computer's screen. You type in the name of a cheesy song from the 1980s. A list of results appears. You double-click on one of them, and within a few seconds the song is playing. This is what it was like to use Napster a decade ago; and it is also how Spotify, a
A good example
A good exampleOne of Africa’s most successful countries sets a trend that more can follow AFP IT IS not surprising that Botswana has topped polls as continental Africa's best-run country. Since independence in 1966, it has consistently held unfettered multi-party elections. It was blessed with a fine founding president, Sir Seretse Khama, succeeded by three decent leaders, the present one being hi
The power of mobile money
The power of mobile moneyMobile phones have transformed lives in the poor world. Mobile money could have just as big an impact Panos ONCE the toys of rich yuppies, mobile phones have evolved in a few short years to become tools of economic empowerment for the world's poorest people. These phones compensate for inadequate infrastructure, such as bad roads and slow postal services, allowing informat
Google's big book case
Google's big book caseThe internet giant’s plan to create a vast digital library should be given a green light Illustration by Peter Schrank TO ITS opponents, it is a brazen attempt by a crafty monopolist to lock up some of the world's most valuable intellectual property. To its fans, it is a laudable effort by a publicly minded company to unlock a treasure trove of hidden knowledge. Next month an
Unwired
UnwiredAs more people ditch landline phones for mobiles, America’s regulators need to respond IF YOU want to save money, cut the cord. In these difficult times ever more Americans are heeding this advice and dropping their telephone landlines in favour of mobile phones (see article). Despite some of the flakiest mobile-network coverage in the developed world, one in four households has now gone mo
America's unjust sex laws
America's unjust sex lawsAn ever harsher approach is doing more harm than good, but it is being copied around the world iStockphoto IT IS an oft-told story, but it does not get any less horrific on repetition. Fifteen years ago, a paedophile enticed seven-year-old Megan Kanka into his home in New Jersey by offering to show her a puppy. He then raped her, killed her and dumped her body in a nearby
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