"It's really tricky to ascribe changes in employment to trade, " says Susan Houseman, a senior economist at the W.E.

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When the current economic crisis first hit, many European leaders--and their American fans, like Harvard economist Ken Rogoff--saw vindication for the E.

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But e-mails from Mr Reyes's computer, seen by The Economist, show that their real aim was to use them to embarrass Mr Uribe politically and to gain international recognition.

ECONOMIST: Colombia

In fact, however, a former high-ranking Pakistani intelligence official has given The Economist a much more plausible explanation for the Lahore attack: that it was the handiwork of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ).

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