2016-06-08 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Cuba's Communist government said it would legalize small and medium-sized enterprises. That builds on earlier reforms, which allow “self-employed” Cubans to own restaurants,

2016-06-08 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Politics this week
本周政治要闻Alexander Van der Bellen, a former head of the Green party, won Austria's presidential election by just 31,000 votes, defeating Norbert Hofer of th

2016-06-06 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

A self-professed introvert, which is fitting for a company that sells itself on textual communication, he values efficiency and candour. After Yahoo bought Flickr, he worked there

2016-06-06 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

A survey of users, admittedly conducted by the firm itself, suggests that team productivity increases by around a third when they start using the software, primarily by reducing in

2016-06-02 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Business Office communication The Slack generation How workplace messaging could replace other missives
商业报道 办公通讯 Slack一代 职场通讯工具如何取代其他沟通形式STEWART BUTTERF

2016-06-02 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

In a possible sign of reconciliation, the warring sides in Yemen agreed to a prisoner swap, to take place in the next three weeks.
也门交战双方同意在此后的三周内进行战俘交换，这预

2016-05-30 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Politics this week
本周政治要闻Rodrigo Duterte won the presidential election in the Philippines in a landslide victory over Mar Roxas, a former member of the cabinet of the outgoi

2016-05-30 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

After weeks of protests against France's controversial new labour laws, Fran?ois Hollande, the president, forced through the reforms without a parliamentary vote.
自几周前颇具争议

2016-05-27 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Surge pricing also boosts supply, at least locally. The extra money is shared with drivers, who therefore have an incentive to travel to areas with high demand to help relieve the

2016-05-27 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Free exchange
自由交换A fare shake
车费的变动Jacking up prices may not be the only way to balance supply and demand for taxis
提高价格可能并不是满足出租车供需平衡的唯一方法IT IS

2016-05-25 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

During its three weeks of operation, the new GFS remained outclassed. On a standard measure—predicting the altitude at which the atmospheric pressure is half as great as at sea le

2016-05-25 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Science and technology Weather forecasting Continental divide
科学技术 天气预报 差距Europeans do not just talk about the weather more than Americans do.
欧洲人不仅比美国人更喜欢谈

2016-05-23 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Fertility rates have fallen in countries with woeful economies, such as Greece and Italy. But they have also fallen in countries that sailed through the financial crisis, such as A

2016-05-23 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Demography
人口统计学The strange case of the missing baby
婴儿的离奇流失As the financial crisis hit, birth rates fell in rich countries, as expected. But a persistent baby bust i

2016-05-19 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The torrent of mergers in the health-care industry kept flowing. IMS Health and Quintiles agreed to combine in a 9 billion transaction that will integrate the wide range of data se

2016-05-19 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The world this week-Business
本周经济要闻Europe's big banks followed the trend of their American counterparts with generally dismal first-quarter earnings. The share prices of UB

2016-05-18 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The dynamism of the mostly-private consumer sector comes not from stimulus, argues Andy Rothman of Matthews Asia, an investment firm, but from strong income growth and low househol

2016-05-18 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

JD, its main local rival, saw revenues leap by nearly 58%.
京东作为阿里巴巴主要的竞争对手，它的年收入增长也有将近58%。Chinese are still spending heavily abroad.
中国人依旧有较高的

2016-05-18 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

China's consumers
中国的消费大军Still kicking
依旧活跃Despite China's economic slowdown, consumption is resilient
尽管中国经济放缓，消费仍旧具备活力IF YOU believe that China'

2016-05-11 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Junior doctors in England went on strike again in their prolonged dispute with the government over new contracts covering weekend work. The walkout was the fifth this year but the

2016-05-11 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The world this week-Politics
本周政治要闻Donald Trump won all five primaries this week, taking over 50% of the vote in all of them. The victories extended his lead in the Republic

2016-05-10 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

It already uses AI techniques to identify people in photos, for example, and to decide which status updates and ads to show to each user. Facebook is also pushing into AI-powered d

2016-05-10 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Leaders Imperial ambitions
社论精粹 帝国野心Mark Zuckerberg prepares to fight for dominance of the next era of computing
马克·扎克伯格准备为争夺下一个计算时代的统治地位而战

2016-05-06 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Banca Popolare di Vicenza set the price range for its capital-raising exercise at between 0.10 and 3 a share (0.11 to $3.40) following a lack of interest among big institutions.
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2016-05-05 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The world this week-Business
本周经济要闻The European Union opened up a new front in its antitrust battle with Google by accusing the company of using the dominant position of its