The World Next Week - Forward-looking Intelligence from Oxford Analytica

key strategic challenge

by the numbers

Rough diamonds

Diamond data

Which country is not playing its part in diamond reporting?

Shorts

Temple of doom

We put Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe under shrine watch.

Bouquets and brickbats

Does money bring happiness? Ask the world's richest man.

Big pharma gets frustrated

Novartis loses a patent spat in India. Good news for cheaper copycats.

Non-flying visit

Protesters set to descend on Heathrow airport.

the week that was...

August 3 - August 9

The indefatigable Fidel

Castro in charge from the sickbed

The Special Relationship

Important, but not special any more

The US-India nuclear deal

Deal done, but the communists don't like it

Iraq's government of disunity

Washington will be unimpressed

Bolivian fiesta

It all distracts from the big issue

Jargon Buster

'Policy-laundering'

How governments cycle policies through outside institutions. Very naughty. «