EIU Country Analysis

America, with over three times as many visitors as Brazil. The tourism industry is...Brazil. The tourism industry is a major contributor to the economy...of GDP in ####) and a leading source of employment, with...active role in tourism promotion as it seeks to foster the

INTELLIGENCE UNIT Profile articles provide a concise overview of an industry...overview of an industry in a particular country. They are designed...America, with over three times as many visitors as Brazil. Pricing Supply-tourism In...in Mexico, representing growth of a third in two years. Of

The Economist Intelligence Unit is a specialist publisher serving companies establishing...## years it has been a source of information on business...and presentations. The firm is a member of The Economist Group...various other electronic formats, such as CD-ROM, Lotus Notes, online

INTELLIGENCE UNIT Mr Ahmadinejad made a high-profile visit to Pakistan...that the president had set a ##-day deadline for the...in no hurry to make a decision. With the Indian United...M K Narayanan, suggested that a "great deal" was taking place

warned in mid-April that a gas supply agreement with the...CPC) could fall though unless a pricing disagreement was resolved. Iran...CPC#;s refusal to pay a higher price for the gas

THE ECONOMIST An autopsy on a scheme for training doctors bodes...is more often than not a fractious one. A highly educated and fiercely independent...in their careers was in a class of its own. On...its own. On May #th, a committee of MPs published an

FROM THE ECONOMIST ME is a puzzling illness, but it appears...but it appears to have a biological basis and a test for it could be...for it could be developed A DISEASE that carries with it...DISEASE that carries with it a social stigma causes additional and

change the way genes work A FEW years ago, researchers in...ago, researchers in Montreal produced a disturbing finding. By the simple...act of neglecting her young, a mother rat could permanently change...off into the world with a more anxious disposition than rats

on every accessible surface. And, as they did in ####, Chinese...Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). As it turned out, the Chinese...This time the problem is a less exotic and better understood...## (EV##), which can cause a dangerous form of hand, foot

world#;s obsessive problem solvers, a three-dimensional Tetris which allows...allows them to help design a new life-saving vaccine seems...vaccine seems certain to be a hit. "foldit" is the latest...is the latest incarnation of a project, called Rosetta@home, that

and by #.#% from a year earlier. Sales volumes in...just #.#% higher than a year earlier. Bank Indonesia became...year, an unchanged forecast from a month ago. Statistics on ##

A run-off for the presidency...presidential election is like watching a horror film in slow motion...slow motion. It took over a month for the Zimbabwe Electoral...its time to decide when a run-off, which should have

slammed shut by so eminent a group as that chaired by Lord Woolf...that chaired by Lord Woolf, a former chief justice, to scrutinise...His committee included Doug Daft, a former chief executive of Coca...Cola, and Sir David Walker, a City grandee. It was established

energy prices. Food accounts for a bigger slice of spending in...grain and meat prices have a bigger impact on inflation. But...monetary policies are to blame. As America stumbles, growth in emerging...year, more than four times as fast as in developed countries. The problem

became prime minister last June. A month earlier Labour had lost...on May #th she wants a referendum on Scottish independence. Ms...Ms Alexander#;s announcement was a volte-face. Previously, she had...she had ruled out such a poll on the grounds that

A small Chinese carmaker with ambitious...carmaker with ambitious plans WITH a model line-up that includes...Wingle, Sailor and Socool, and a corporate action plan to "attack...to "attack the consciousness like a wolf while sensing danger like

industrial dynasty ITS teeth bared, a greyhound sprints across the panels...sprints across the panels of a large painting before ending badly...before ending badly, its head a blurry mess, its forelegs crumpled...who said that it has a message for organisations--they have

A Russian oil pipeline to Lithuania...cut since ####, not #### as we stated last week ("Divide

have excitably heralded the results as certain evidence not only of...minister#;s inevitable defenestration, at a general election or sooner, but...election or sooner, but also as a conclusive popular rejection of New...and Nantwich on May ##nd as a referendum on Mr Brown#;s

weekday, ### boys gather in a gym on Chicago#;s South...few weeks Chicago has seen a surge in gang violence. But...in straight lines. Each wears a blazer and a red tie. And in unison...On May #th RSF held a conference to discuss the "new

A PLETHORA of current television programmes...current television programmes attests to a widespread fascination with those who...Medical Centre in Brooklyn has a cast less beautiful than that...pathos,intrigue, tragedy and redemption. A surprising amount of what Ms

A youthful Dmitry Medvedev is inaugurated...is inaugurated Russian president, but a stern Vladimir Putin looms large...but walked out together. Like a bridegroom in church, Vladimir Putin...and rights of Russian citizens. A few minutes later, the two

on every accessible surface. And, as they did in ####, Chinese...Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). As it turned out, the Chinese...This time the problem is a less exotic and better understood...## (EV##), which can cause a dangerous form of hand, foot

its callousness and incompetence, again, as a terrible disaster strikes WHEN the...other measures to limit casualties as the tempest approached. Since then...been feeble. The cyclone lifted a vast mass of sea-water...and caused many more casualties. As The Economist went to press

change the way genes work A FEW years ago, researchers in...ago, researchers in Montreal produced a disturbing finding. By the simple...act of neglecting her young, a mother rat could permanently change...off into the world with a more anxious disposition than rats

who had been hoping for a sale. Some observers predicted that...internet-service provider, to create a network based on WiMax, a technology that delivers fast wireless...allow Sprint Nextel to steal a march on AT&T and...Its larger rivals are backing a different wireless technology that will

s electoral prospects lies in a dusty corner of the corporate...has caused no more than a trickle of companies to pack...firms and speaking darkly of a loss of faith in the...apparently meek proposals floated almost a year ago by the government