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

key strategic challenge

Saving 'Made in China'

Weeding out poisonous toothpaste and exploding phone batteries.

by the numbers

Grain pains

Wheat Futures, December 2007

Your daily loaf of bread rises.

shorts

Due vigilance

ECB should freeze interest rates.

Familiar debate in Morocco

Election will have strong echoes of Turkey.

Impatience grows in Dhaka

Tension will not let up in Bangladesh.

one week later....

Developments, August 25 - 31

No let-up in Polish tensions

Polish 'Watergate' claims victim.

Divisions remain in Peru

But the economy is booming.

More market jitters

No relief from turmoil.

Jargon Buster

Computer models loose on Wall Street'Quant funds'

Sharp declines are a result of human frailty - not renegade robots «