2019-08-13 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The only mouthwatering aspect of the delivery business is its potential size. According to Bernstein, a brokerage, almost a third of the global restaurant industry is made up of ho

2019-08-12 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

There had been one golden moment. It came in 1974, the year he started driving a taxi. Congo, then called Zaire, won the African Soccer Cup and hosted the Rumble in the Jungle, the

2019-08-12 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Mr Groen is a reluctant apostle of black magic. He once said of his efforts to expand beyond the Netherlands, “It’s horrible. We’ve spent 100 times more money in

2019-08-12 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Business
来源于《商业》版块Schumpeter
熊彼特企业管理专栏Foodoo economics
食物经济学Meal delivery is anything but a tasty business
外卖绝不是一门美味的生意Even those who recoil

2019-08-12 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The Commerce Department's would allow its officials to declare a country a manipulator even if the Treasury had not.
美国商务部将允许其官员宣布一个国家为汇率操纵国，即便财政部

2019-08-12 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Because he was so audacious, and had good instincts, and would go to places other drivers wouldn't, his taxi became the car of choice for Western journalists. It was good money

2019-08-09 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The southern shrimp alliance, an industry association based in Florida, is angling for tariffs.
总部位于佛罗里达的一家产业协会—南方养虾联盟正试图征收关税。It has tried repeatedly

2019-08-09 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

These problems have three remedies. First, governments need to ensure that central banks’ monopoly over coins and notes is not replaced by private monopolies over digital money. R

2019-08-09 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

South Africa’s finance minister laid out plans to provide Eskom, which generates most of the country’s electricity, with another rescue, this time worth 59bn rand ($4.2

2019-08-08 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Exactly why a stump's neighbours dole out their hard-won nutrients in this manner remains a mystery, but Dr Bader and Dr Leuzinger have ideas.
为什么树桩的邻居们会以这种方式少

2019-08-08 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Cash is dying out because of two forces. One is demand— younger consumers want payment systems that plug seamlessly into their digital lives. But equally important is that supplie

2019-08-08 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The world this week
本周要闻Business
商业America’s Justice Department announced a broad antitrust review of the market power of online platforms in search, social media and

2019-08-07 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

A living stump sounds like something out of a horror movie.
一个活着的树桩，听起来像是恐怖电影才会有的东西。In fact, it is not unusual for a tree, deprived of its trunk and foliag

2019-08-07 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Strikingly, none of the accused—the main actors in the drama—protested or tried to clear their names; instead they helpfully implicated themselves in fantastical crimes. Some wer

2019-08-07 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Leaders
来源于《社论》版块Digital payments
电子支付The dash from cash
现金的猛冲Rich countries are racing to dematerialise payments. They need to do more to prepare for the side

2019-08-07 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Congo's wheels
刚果的车轮Pierre Mambele, taxi-driver, died on June 8th, aged 74
出租车司机皮埃尔·曼贝尔于6月8日去世，享年74岁Since the best place to pick up a fare in Kin

2019-08-05 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

This moral predicament is captured in a scene in “Donbass” in which thugs tie a Ukrainian soldier to a telegraph pole and entice the crowd to lynch him. “I wanted to show the me

2019-08-05 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Often his uncompromising films lack linear narratives, even protagonists. He is not interested in heroes, but in the crowd; in the audience on the square, not the politicians on th

2019-08-05 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Lego has also astutely catered to local tastes. This year the firm launched three sets specifically for China, the first time it has done so for any country. Fans were delighted at

2019-08-05 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Books & arts
图书与艺术Cinema and reality
镜头和现实The director’s cut
导演的剪辑A bold Ukrainian film-maker charts the line between fiction and truth
一位大胆的乌克兰电影

2019-08-05 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Business
来源于《商业》版块Lego v Barbie in China
乐高和芭比娃娃在中国的竞争Yellow brick road
黄砖路Budding engineers cluster around a table-sized model of the China Art Museum,

2019-08-05 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Some economists therefore expect attempts to mitigate the negative impact of rate cuts by excusing banks from negative rates on some excess reserves.
因此一些经济学家预计，央行将试

2019-08-02 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

And then there was how people responded to her call: the women who told her how welcoming her blowing made the Rosh Hashanah service for them, the National Public Radio listeners w

2019-08-02 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

Third, work with regulators rather than try to outwit or overwhelm them. From the start Microsoft designed Azure in such a way that it could accommodate local data-protection laws.

2019-08-02 所属栏目:经济学人双语版|经济学人下载

The world this week
本周要闻politics
政治Boris Johnson took over as Britain’s prime minister from Theresa May after winning the Conservative Party’s leadership contes