2016-05-05 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Small wonder Africa grew poorer between 1980 and 2000.
难怪在1980至2000年期间，非洲变得更穷了。Now inflation has largely been tamed, most central banks are islands of excellence a

2016-04-30 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Leaders Business in Africa Making Africa work
社论精粹 非洲商业 让非洲发展起来The continent's future depends on people, not commodities
非洲的前途依赖人，而非大宗商品“IS A

2016-04-30 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The explanation that many academics and think-tanks favour is that guards are less tolerant towards women. A 1994 study of Texan prisons found that wardens in female prisons demand

2016-04-27 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Britain-Women in prison
英国 牢房中的女性Breaking worse
让女性走出牢房Female prisoners are more badly behaved than male ones
女性囚犯比男性囚犯表现更差Bad behaviour behind bars

2016-04-27 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Paul Ryan, the Speaker of the House, once again ruled out putting himself forward as a candidate for the Republican Party's presidential nomination.
美国众议院议长保罗·瑞恩

2016-04-26 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Ukraine's prime minister, Arseniy Yatseniuk, said he will resign as soon as the parliament finds a candidate to replace him. President Petro Porosh

2016-04-25 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Don Blankenship, arguably America's most powerful coal-industry executive when he was boss of Massey Energy, was sentenced to a year in jail for conspiring to violate safety rules

2016-04-21 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Business this week
本周经济要闻Pfizer called off its $160 billion merger with Allergan after the US Treasury proposed new rules that would severely curtail the benefits of “inver

2016-04-21 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

For Peggy Orenstein, an American journalist, these are symptoms of a larger and more pernicious problem: “the pressure on young women to reduce their worth to their bodies an

2016-04-20 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Girls and sex
女孩与性Two steps forward, one back
向前两步，后退一步For girls, growing up is a perilous journey
对女孩来说，成长是一场艰险的旅行FOR tips on taking a selfie, talk

2016-04-19 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

There were 4.7 billion square metres of housing under construction but not yet available for sale at the end of last year, up by 25% from the end of 2011; 452 million square metres

2016-04-18 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The results of this two-tier system have been meagre so far. The frenzy in the biggest cities stems from the central bank’s steady loosening of monetary policy over the past

2016-04-15 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Chinese property
中国房地产For whom the bubble blows
泡沫为谁而破House prices are soaring in big cities, but oversupply plagues much of the country
大城市房价飙涨，但产能过剩才是

2016-04-15 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In Pakistan an Islamist suicide-bomber killed 74 people, including many children, in a park in Lahore, capital of the province of Punjab.

2016-04-11 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Foreign-owned firms in Zimbabwe were given a deadline of April 1st to comply with a law that requires them to hand 51% of their ownership to “indigenous” citizens. Bank

2016-04-11 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Football's governing body, FIFA, posted its first annual loss since 2002, citing increased development expenses and higher competition costs. It also revealed that Sepp Blatter, t

2016-04-07 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Business this week
本周经济要闻The saga at Valeant rumbled on. Michael Pearson decided to quit as chief executive of the troubled Canadian drugmaker. He acknowledged that the past

2016-04-05 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The cat in the hat can be merged with a verb phrase to create a new object, a sentence: The cat in the hat came back. And that sentence can be merged into bigger sentences: You thi

2016-04-02 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Johnson
约翰逊Noam Chomsky
诺姆·乔姆斯基The theories of the world's best-known linguist have become rather weird
世界最知名语言学家提出了更诡异的理论FEW disciplines are

2016-03-31 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Some outbreaks in eastern Europe have started in communities of Roma (gypsies).
东欧的某些疾病爆发于罗马（吉普赛人）的社区，Members of this poor and ostracised minority are shunne

2016-03-31 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

International Vaccination A jab in time
国际 疫苗—及时一针Some Western countries have lower vaccination rates than poor parts of Africa. Anti-vaxxers are not the main culpri

2016-03-30 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Thousands of miners in the north-eastern Chinese city of Shuangyashan staged protests over unpaid wages. The state-owned company they work for has suffered because of falling deman

2016-03-28 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The world this week-Politics
本周政治新闻In a surprise move, Vladimir Putin announced that he was withdrawing the bulk of Russian forces from Syria, six months after he sent them

2016-03-28 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Pandemics
流行病An ounce of prevention
预防不足Crises of infectious diseases are becoming more common. The world should be better prepared
传染病导致的危机已经越来越常见，世界应

2016-03-24 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

In Riyadh and in Jeddah, though not in a few more liberal places such as Qatif, the clerics—who always opposed female participation in the elections—have stopped the ne