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Gender, education and work : The weaker sex
Boys are being outclassed by girls at both school and university, and the gap is widening The Economist The OECD deems literacy to be the most important skill that it…
Global population forecasts
The Economist D'ici à 2050 la population de l'Afrique va doubler ( milliard) Celle du Nigeria va atteindre 413 millions. Congo and Ethiopia will swell to more than 195m and…
Dossier spécial de l’hebdo “The Economist: America’s Hispanics
The Economist One American in six is now Hispanic, up from a small minority two generations ago. By mid-century it will be more than one in four. David Rennie explains…
La drogue, le crime numéro un
15 % des crimes qui mènent à la prison au Québec sont liés aux stupéfiants Journal de Montréal --- Aux centres d’injection supervisée, Ottawa répond avec la loi et l’ordre…
The third great wave (Dossier de l’hebdo The Economist)
The first two industrial revolutions inflicted plenty of pain but ultimately benefited everyone. The digital one may prove far more divisive, argues Ryan Avent MOST PEOPLE ARE discomfited by radical…
” On both the French left and right, by contrast, political leaders implicitly accepted high unemployment as a price for giving those in work more security and higher wages.”
The Economist France’s labour code, a fat red doorstop of a book, runs to 3,809 pages, 45% longer than ten years ago. The collective-bargaining agreement for hairdressers alone covers 196…
The Economist Publishes an Online Essay About the Future of the Book
The five-chapter essay (5000+ words) is titled, “From Papyrus to Pixels: The Digital Transformation Has Only Just Begun." A few highlights: In 2013 around million International Standard Book Numbers (ISBNS)…
Democracy was the most successful political idea of the 20th century. Why has it run into trouble, and what can be done to revive it?
Long article de l'hebdomadaire "The Economist"
The Economist, la voix de la nouvelle élite
Aram Bakshian Jr., The national Interest . Il y a vingt ans, Bill Gates, le boss de Microsoft, n’avait pas de poste de télévision chez lui. Il expliquait alors que s’il écoutait…