If cash continues to evaporate at its present rate, even the strongest airlines will need to raise money.

ECONOMIST: Airlines in the recession

That will not last for ever: if government debt continues to grow at its present rate, they may start to realise that Japanese government bonds are not the risk-free investments that they still consider them.

ECONOMIST: Japanese finances

Lengthy power cuts are hollowing out Pakistan's already weak economy, which, at its present 3% growth rate, cannot possibly sustain Pakistan's youth bulge.

CNN: What's working in Pakistan

So the new energy minister, Marit Arnstad, a fierce young woman from the Centre Party, says that oil and gas production will have to be curbed or at least kept down to its present rate.

ECONOMIST: Norway