• For the generation born in 2000-04, it was 124 (ie, 124 boys were born in those years for every 100 girls).

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  • One of the most important reforms of the past half-decade was brought in by Franco Bassanini, minister for public administration (ie, red tape) in the outgone government, who drastically reduced the number of pieces of paper needed to get a job or start up a firm.

    ECONOMIST: A survey of Italy

  • One of the first useful functions for toolbars was acting as pop-up blockers, but the major browsers all have this built in now, so for the IE versions of these toolbars I would advise turning this additional blocker off.

    BBC: [an error occurred while processing this directive]

  • Real short-term interest rates in Japan (ie, adjusted for inflation) are zero or even slightly negative.

    ECONOMIST: Japan

  • Outsourcing is the topic of this article, in particular outsourcing to firms that use maquiladora production ie, manufacturing in Mexican border towns, for re-export to America.

    ECONOMIST: A look at noteworthy articles from business journals

  • And, like other shares, but unlike mutual funds, they can be bought on margin (ie, for an initial downpayment) or sold short (ie, borrowed and sold in the hope that the price will fall) which allows much more sophisticated trading strategies.

    ECONOMIST: Passive investing: Another kind of web | The

  • He says ASEAN countries deserve praise for cutting tariffs in a non-discriminatory way (ie, on goods produced both inside and outside ASEAN).

    ECONOMIST: Vague hopes of integration and messy bilateral squabbles

  • In other words, the 2013 budget will be repeated in the following four years with no adjustment for inflation (ie 508m per year).

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  • In 2009, for every dollar the Federal government spent from this generation (ie current taxes) it spent over 70 cents from future generations (ie debt).

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  • Commercial business lending is quite active in part as customers of RBS and Lloyds have been running for the hills (ie other banks) due to uncertainty over their long-term funding.

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  • It is quite hard to be precise, because none of the banks report their current capital position on the transitional Basel 2.5 basis (ie the rules for measuring balance-sheet strength that will apply in 2015).

    BBC: EU banks may raise ?200bn

  • In the meantime, the incumbent carriers look to the federal government (ie, taxpayers) for bail-outs.

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  • They were, after all, originally designed to run in 640 kb of RAM, perhaps 1 or 2 MB for some of the more recent ones (ie, 20 years old, not 30).

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  • The resulting specimens will then be sorted and the best (ie, those that have flourished in the saline soils of Miyagi's paddies) selected for crossbreeding, in order to concentrate desirable mutations into reproducible lines of plants.

    ECONOMIST: Salt-tolerant rice

  • Dr Christakis and Dr Fowler suggest that a hybrid method might be developed in which the search queries of a group of highly connected (ie, popular) individuals could be scanned for signs of the flu.

    ECONOMIST: Epidemiology: Infectious personalities | The

  • What's more, senior Whitehall officials have long worried that IDS's plan for a new Universal Credit could go the way of the health reforms - ie they sound good in theory but may prove bureaucratic, costly and unpopular in practice.

    BBC: Cabinet reshuffle - the best laid plans....

  • As far as the rest of humanity goes, ever since the persistent Dennis Tito secured his place as the first tourist in space, he has become a rallying point for enthusiasts trying to get access to space for a broader (ie, poorer) range of customers.

    ECONOMIST: Space tourism

  • In India investors are not allowed to short-sell equities (ie, sell shares they do not own) for speculative reasons.

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