Tomorrow’s cover today: in praise of the world’s most international city. If only the rest of Britain properly appreciated it.
Two own goals. The Ukrainian government still seems to think it can convince the West that it is justified in jailing Yulia Tymoshenko.
“We’re living in a world where the locus of innovation is not in any one place,” says Nitin Nohria, dean of the Harvard Business School. What does this global knowledge network mean for business? Mr Nohria and Jeff Weiner, chief executive of LinkedIn, discuss in this video from The Economist’s Ideas Economy events series.
Daily chart: which countries have the highest rates of cannabis use? There are between 119m and 224m users of cannabis. The Pacific island of Palau reports the highest rate: nearly a quarter of people aged 15 to 64 smoked pot in the past year. Italians and Americans also like to get high.
As a journalist, I’m delighted that my job guarantees me a troubled but ultimately blissful courtship with the woman of my dreams. But I can’t help but wonder why hygiene inspectors and chartered accountants shouldn’t have their own shot at happiness.
Daily chart: the world’s most popular theme parks. California may be a dysfunctional place but it still leads the world in making three dimensional fantasies. The top eight theme parks worldwide are owned by Disney, drawing in 100m punters between them.
KAL’s cartoon: this week, a gap.
How can companies attract more creative employees? Amy Cappellazzo of Christie’s International has a strategy: “I don’t hire anyone who doesn’t speak a second language fluently.” Find out more ideas for hiring creative talent in a video from The Economist’s Ideas Economy events series.
Tomorrow’s cover today: beneath the chaos lies a complex power struggle between generals and Islamists. The West should back the latter.
Daily chart: America vs China. America’s economy made up 22% of world GDP in 2011; China’s just 10%. The perception in some countries that America is no longer the world’s pre-eminent economy is therefore somewhat premature. Nevertheless, on current trends China will surpass America somewhere around 2018.
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