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10 The world this week Asia
39 Caste in Indian politics
Leaders Groupthink
13 South Africa’s corruption 40 Japan’s monarchy
Dynasty of dysfunction Chrysanthemummification
14 Ukraine in a mess 41 Australian exports to China
Don’t give up Purchasing powder
14 Tax reform 41 Public transport in the
Twice bankrupt Philippines
16 Recognising Jerusalem Jeep stakes
Trump’s folly 44 Banyan Tax Worry about the
Republicans’ tax bill. Worry
17 The battle in AI Bangladesh’s victorious even more about the way they
begum
Giant advantage passed it: leader, page14. How
On the cover 18 The WTO the bill compares with earlier
The ANC, South Africa’s Disaster management China reforms, page 29
ruling party, will soon vote 45 A new branch of
on ditching the Zumas. To Letters government
avoid a dire, two-decade Who supervises the
dynasty of dysfunction, it 20 On Zimbabwe, Northern supervisors?
should jump at the chance: Ireland, carbon-dioxide 46 Public hygiene
leader, page13. The promise emissions, bank robbers Labour of lavs
of fairness and prosperity as
apartheid ended has been Briefing
tainted by corruption and Middle East and Africa
“state capture”, page 23. 23 South Africa 47 Jerusalem
Big Western companies have Captured state Capital gains
been caught up in the 25 Business in South Africa 48 Language in Israel
intrigue, page 25 Global firms and the Guptas Signs of improvement
48 Leadership in Africa Honduras The crisis over a
United States Forty-eight shades of grey disputed election looks as if it
The Economist online 29 Tax reform in context 49 Ethiopian Marxists will be solved at the
Daily analysis and opinion to 1980s nostalgia Nostalgia for the Derg negotiating table, page 36.
What the data say about the
supplement the print edition, plus 30 Public lands 49 Arab international integrity of the vote count,
audio and video, and a daily chart Shrinking ears relations
Economist.com page 37
30 Alabama’s election The Gulf Backbiting
E-mail: newsletters and Less is Moore Council
mobile edition 50 The war in Yemen
Economist.com/email 31 Child brides
State of the unions Shaken up
Print edition: available online by 32 Foreign policy
7pm London time each Thursday
Economist.com/print Relative moralism Europe
35 Lexington
Audio edition:available online 51 Ukraine undone
to download each Friday Chaos and conspiracy The oligarchs strike back
Economist.com/audioedition 52 Arms control
The Americas The INF treaty in peril
36 Honduras’s election 53 Corruption in Turkey
Just talking about a Plot of gold Jerusalem Donald Trump’s
revolution 53 Russia recognition of the holy city
37 Counting votes in The Siberian bitcoin rush
Volume 425 Number 9070 acknowledged reality.
Honduras 54 Corsican nationalism Nevertheless it was unwise:
Published since September1843 Reasons to disbelieve Drifting away leader, page 16. It may not
to take part in "a severe contest between
intelligence, which presses forward, and 37 Canada’s trade deals 54 Russian sports doping cause chaos, but it pushes a
an unworthy, timid ignorance obstructing The lonely Mr Trudeau Drugged, out stable peace still further into
our progress." the future, page 47
38 Bello 55 Charlemagne
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