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A bit less bloody

Source: Sistema Nacionalde Seguridad Pública

*Not includingHidalgo state

Murders in Mexico by month, ’000

2006 07 08 09 10 11 12 130

0.5

1.0

1.5

2.0

2.5

*

Can’t work, won’t work

Source: ONS

Young adults aged 16-24 years old, %

1992 95 2000 05 10 120

10

20

30

40

Inactive

Unemployed

A post-media firm

Source: Daily Mail and General Trust *Excludes Northcliffe

Daily Mail and General Trust operating profit2012, %

Euromoney37

Media*22

RMS19

Information15

Events7

Total:£300m

Blue-rinse bonanza

Source: Department for Work and Pensions

State benefits, £bn, 2012-13 prices

0

30

60

90

120

150

180

0

2

4

6

8

10

12

1979 85 90 95 2000 05 12

Working age and childrenPensioners

Total as % of GDP

A taxing problem

Source: KPMG *Proposed

Personal income tax, highest marginal rate, 2013

0 25 50 75

France*

Sweden

Spain

Germany

Britain

Italy

2Going cheap

Sources: Dealogic; Thomson Reuters

Corporate bonds

Investment-gradeHigh-yield

Investment-gradeHigh-yield

Global issuance, $bnUS bond yields, %

0

5

10

15

20

25

2006 07 08 09 10 11 12 130

150

300

450

600

750

1On the level

Sources: Central banks; Bloomberg

Central-bank base rates, %F O R E C A S T

2007 08 09 10 11 12 13 140

2

4

6

United States

Japan

Britain

Euro area

3Boom deferred

Source: Eurostat

Gross fixed capital formation as % of GDP

2006 07 08 09 10 11 12

12

14

16

18

20

22

24

Euro area

Britain

United States

Hope springs eternal

Source: “A nation of gamblers”, by Edward Glaseser, NBER, 2013

US property bubbles, % change:

100 0 100 200 300 400+–

Chicago (1830-41)

Los Angeles (1880s)

Western New York (1790s)

Alabama (1815-19)

California (1970s-80s)

New York City (1920-33)

Residential (1996-2012)

Farmland (1880-1933)

40,775

900

boom bust

Corralling cash

Source: IMF

Number of capital-control measures, worldwide

0

50

100

150

200

250

2000 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10

Easing Tightening

Owing the world nothing

Source: Fitch Ratings

Philippines’ net foreign debt as % of GDP

*Estimate

20

10

0

10

20

30

40

+

–

2003 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12*

Africa rising

Source: Thomson Reuters

Stock-exchange indices in sub-Saharan Africa$ terms, January 2012=100

Zimbabwe (Industrial)

Nigeria (All Share)

Kenya (Nairobi)

J F M A M J J A S O N D2012

J F M A2013

80

100

120

140

160

180

Denmark

Unstrikingly Swedish

Sources: Jelle Visser; OECD

Union members as % of total workforce

0

20

40

60

80

100

1970 75 80 85 90 95 2000 05 11

Sweden

ItalyBritain

JapanGermany

United StatesFrance

Central banksBase rates, %

2007 08 09 10 11 12 130

2

4

6United States

Euro area

Japan

IRAN

S A U D I

A R A B I A

YEMEN

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

WUSTAH

Arabian Sea

Strait of Hormuz

toOMANBAHRAIN

QATAR Gulf of Oman

Riyadh

Doha

Abu Dhabi

Muscat

Manama

Dubai

Salalah

Duqm

Sohar

The Gulf

OM

AN

300 km

E C U A D O R

C O L O M B I A

Caracas

B R A Z I L

P E R U

P A C I F I C

O C E A N

V E N E Z U E L A

Bogotá

P A N A M A

C a r i b b e a nS e a

San Vicente del Caguán

Peasant reserve zones

Source: Ministry of Agriculture

250 km

TURKMEN-ISTAN

Kabul

UZBEK-ISTAN TAJIK-

ISTAN

A F G H A N I S T A N

Mazar-i-Sharif BALKH

Dushanbe

H I ND

U K

US

H

Hairatan

Railways200 km

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Points of interest

Source: Mandiant

Number of foreign organisations targeted by one group of Chinese hackers in selected industries, 2006-12

6

0 5 10 15 20

Information technology

Aerospace

Satellites & telecoms

Scientific research

Energy

International organisations

High-tech electronics

Financial services

Lands of the free and not so free 7

Internet anddigital media2012

Free

Partly freeNot freeNo data

Sources: Freedom House; GreatFire.org

China’s internetURLs: monitored blocked

60,111 8,724

1Keep it quietWebsites and terms blocked by Chinese authorities, latest

% of instant-messaging terms blocked Sites tested by GreatFire.orgPolitical35.2

Prurient15.2

News 10.1

Politicaldissident 7.0

Governmentofficial 5.2Other 27.3

Sources: GreatFire.org; Jeffrey Knockel, University of New Mexico

Type Tested BlockedURLs 60,111 8,724Domains 17,144 1,738Weibo searches 13,130 1,718Google searches 7,604 1,682Wikipedia pages 418 223HTTPs 1,134 213IP addresses 347 58Alexa top 1,000 976 34domains

Google sites 371 27

0

25

50

75

100FORECAST

2008 09 10 11 12 13 14 15

Sources: Morgan Stanley; 2012 China Gaming Industry Report

FORECAST

0

100

200

300

400

500

2008 09 10 11 12 13 14 15

Numbers gameChina’s:

4

online gaming marketSales, yuan bn

e-commerce market$bn

2Cri de coeur

Source: Sina Weibo Data Centre

% of microblog users mentioning “smog” or “PM2.5” by locationJanuary 2013

>60

SHANDONG

JIANGSU

SHANGHAI

HEBEI

BEIJINGTIANJIN

SICHUANZHEJIANGCHONGQING

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70

Zhejiang

Shanghai

Chongqing

Sichuan

Shandong

Tianjin

Jiangsu

Beijing

Hebei

3Obstacle courseInternet users, m

Sources: CNNIC; World Bank; news reports

0

200

400

600

1995 96 97 98 99 2000 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12

Jan 1995: Chinaoffers internetservice to the public

Aug 1996: China blocks numerous websitessystematically for the first time, including Voiceof America, Western news groups and those ofhuman-rights groups

Sep 2002: Google’s search engine blockedfor the first time. Unblocked days later,but without access to “cached” pages

Mar 2008: After unrest in Tibet, YouTube is blocked

Jul 2009: After riots in Xinjiang, Facebook andTwitter are permanently blocked

Jun 2009: During the 20th anniversary ofTiananmen Square crackdown, Facebook

and Twitter are temporarily blocked

Jun/Oct 2012:Bloomberg andNew York Times

are blockedfollowing stories

about the financesof leaders’ relatives

5Hubs of commerce

Sources: Thomson Reuters; company reports

Chinese internet companies$bn

Market cap. (latest) Revenue profit

Tencent 59.2 7.0 2.00

Baidu 29.5 3.6 1.68

NetEase 7.2 1.3 0.58

Sina 3.2 0.5 0.03

Yukou 2.8 0.3 -0.07Tudou

2012Net

0

200

400

600

800

1,000

1,200

1,400

1995 2000 05 10 12

United StatesEuropean Union

ChinaRest of world nil

Shanghai

Beijing

Hong Kong

X I N J I A N G

T I B E T

HEILONGJIANG

JILIN

LIAONING

SHANDONG

JIANGSU

SHANGHAI

Q I N G H A I

HAINAN

GANSU

GUANGXI

NINGXIA

CHONGQING

GUIZHOU

SHAANXI

SHANXIHEBEI

BEIJING

TIANJIN

HENAN

HUBEI

JIANGXI

ANHUISICHUAN

YUNNAN

ZHEJIANG

HUNAN

GUANGDONG

FUJI

AN

I N N E R M O N G O L I A

<3030-39.940-49.950-60>60

Total,%

42.1

Sources: CNNIC; World Bank; ITU

Number of usersm

Internet penetrationrate, 2011-12, %

High time to tax

Sources: Census Bureau; The Economist

% of retail sales

1994 9896 2000 02 04 06 08 10 120

2

4

6

8

Sales-tax revenue

Mail-order and internet sales

Blink and you miss it

Sources: US Citizenship and ImmigrationServices; Michael Clemens *Forecast

Months taken to reach H1B visa cap

0

2

4

6

8

10

2003 04 05 06 07 08Years beginning April

09 10 11 12 13*

The Abe bounce

Source: CEIC

Japan’s Tankan large-firm manufacturingconfidence index, percentage points*

*”Favourable” minus “unfavourable”

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q42011

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q412

Q113

15

10

5

0

5

10

+

–

ABE ELECTED

Youth unemployment rates*February 2013 or latest, %

Source: Eurostat *15-24 year olds

0 10 20 30 40 50 60

Greece

Spain

Portugal

Italy

Slovakia

Cyprus

Ireland