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Contents The Economist April 25th 2020 3
The world this week United States
5 A summary of political 17 Reopening America
and business news 18 Mercury rising
19 Biological weapons
Leaders
20 The Hua-war
7 Public finances
After the disease, the debt 21 Catholic voters
22 Lexington Oil be back
8 Regimes under covid-19
Power grabs
The Americas
9 Carmakers in trouble
Pimp the ride 23 The Peronist and the
pandemic
9 Migrants and the virus
Essential workers 24 Bolivia’s fine wines
On the cover 10 Climate change 26 Bello Cuba on the edge
An Earth Day in the life
Governments will owe vast of a plague
amounts after the crisis. Here’s
how to deal with it: leader, Letters Asia
page 7. The pandemic will leave 27 Countries that have
the world deep in debt. It may 13 On wet markets, almost beaten covid-19
look for a novel way out: Thailand, abortion,
briefing, page 14 covid-19, house names, 28 Sri Lanka’s home-brewers
management 30 India’s costly lockdown
• A pandemic of power grabs
Autocrats and would-be Briefing 30 Covid-19 in Central Asia
autocrats see opportunity in 14 Covid-19 and public 32 Banyan Whaling in Japan
disaster: leader, page 8. finances
Strongmen are using the Undercut China
pandemic as an excuse to seize 33 Arrests in Hong Kong
more power, page 49. Democrats
are detained in Hong Kong as a 34 Chopstick reform
hole is carved in the Basic Law, 35 Chaguan Debating a
page 33 child’s suffering
• What next for the car
industry? The pandemic will
make it smaller and less
profitable—but it will still need Middle East & Africa
investments for the future: 37 The Gulf’s covid
leader, page 9 and analysis, incubators
page 60 38 Bibi wins again in Israel
• How to scale up testing 39 Food problems in Africa
To end their lockdowns safely, 40 A Nigerian reformer dies
countries will have to build and By invitation The novel
deploy testing at an coronavirus will hasten
unprecedented scale, page 70 three big medical Europe
breakthroughs. That is
just a start, says Bill 41 Germany’s response
Gates, page 73 42 Parisian jogging etiquette
42 Turkey’s refugees
43 NATO in Europe
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