If present trends continue, the report reckons that 30-40% of the next generation of black men will be permanently disenfranchised.

ECONOMIST: Disenfranchised for life

The report reckons that the number of underweight children will rise from 121m to 125m by 2010, assuming no change in the size of the world economy (in fact, it is expected to shrink 2% this year).

ECONOMIST: The poor and the global crisis

The Oxford Economics report reckons the 47-medal haul at the Beijing Olympics set a high bar.

BBC: Going for the happiness gold

The Digital Future Report reckons that 24% of Americans aren't using the Internet at all.

FORBES: The Addictive Internet

But Rupert Hoogewerf, the founder of the annual Hurun Report on China's richest citizens, reckons that it may already have more billionaires.

ECONOMIST: Economics focus

This may need to span the world, not just Mexico, and it may have to report the results in real time to the Justice Department, reckons Richard Cassin of Cassin Law.

ECONOMIST: Walmart