• While he meets Queen Elizabeth and her prime minister, Tony Blair, many of his ministers notably those of defence, economy, foreign affairs and education will meet their British counterparts.

    ECONOMIST: Argentina and Britain

  • By 1960, or not very long afterwards, the Ministry for Overseas (or Associated?) Territories could be a fairly small office, dealing with the remaining colonies and those smaller ex-colonies that, for reasons of defence and economy, wanted Britain to continue to represent them abroad.

    ECONOMIST: From the archive

  • It has been announced that French President Nicolas Sarkozy will visit London on Tuesday for a summit with Mr Cameron on defence and the economy.

    BBC: EU leaders strive for deal on budget discipline

  • Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the defence secretary and the economy minister's brother (a third brother is the president), is just back from a pilgrimage to Buddhist sites in India.

    ECONOMIST: Wary of China, India tries to charm its neighbours

  • This defence goes: each European economy is different, and faces different problems, so one size would have never fitted all.

    ECONOMIST: European politics

  • Matthew O'Callaghan, a member of the town's flood task force, said without the defence, the town's economy would have suffered.

    BBC: Leicestershire floods: Homeowners face clean-up

  • Eighty companies from five sectors of the economy - finance, defence, energy, telecommunications and pharmaceuticals - were encouraged to share information.

    BBC: Anti-cyber threat centre launched

  • Most wars in America's history have thanks to massive government spending on defence tended to stimulate the economy.

    ECONOMIST: The economics of war

  • Most defence analysts think North Korea, with its economy on the brink of collapse and much of its population underfed, is incapable of a sustained attack.

    ECONOMIST: North Korea’s nasty business | The

  • In June last year, the secretary of state for Scotland, Michael Moore, announced that the UK government was commencing a detailed programme of analysis on issues such as the constitution, the economy, public finances and taxation, defence, energy and welfare.

    BBC: Scotland politics

  • Mr Harper stuck to a simple mantra: his successful stewardship of the economy, promises of tax cuts, stronger defence and tougher measures against crime.

    ECONOMIST: Canada's general election

  • Defence spending is running well ahead of growth in the economy.

    BBC: NEWS | Programmes | Analysis | What China Wants

  • Further interest-rate cuts and heavier public spending on construction and defence, and possibly more tax cuts, should support the economy by next year.

    ECONOMIST: World economy

  • Fundamentally, Alaska is a pre-modern welfare state, where the economy is almost purely extractive (with the exception of defence and tourism).

    ECONOMIST: The London Stock Exchange

  • The position of the American economy as the leader in information technologies combined with the investments in the American defence budget make it very unlikely that the United States will lose this lead.

    ECONOMIST: As China rises, must others bow? | The

  • President Eduardo Frei of Chile changed his defence minister in a cabinet shuffle, and announced public-spending measures aimed at reviving a sickly economy and cutting unemployment.

    ECONOMIST: The Serbs go

  • In January, it turned out that the economy contracted in the fourth quarter due almost entirely to the looming fiscal cliff and a drop in defence spending.

    BBC: US naval workers all at sea as sequester looms

  • Recent official figures revealed the US economy shrank by 0.1% in the fourth quarter of 2012, driven in part by previous defence cuts.

    BBC: Obama offers spending-cuts deal to delay budget crunch

  • Where after the war Attlee established the case for the NHS, state education and a welfare state, Thatcher, after the industrial wars of the 70s and the Cold War, won the arguments for a market-based economy, the private ownership of key industries and services, limits on trade union power and a strong defence policy based on the Atlantic Alliance.

    BBC: Are we all Thatcherites now?

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