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A special report on Germany

Older and wiser

For all its stolid reputation, Germany has become surprisingly flexible, says Brooke Unger. But it needs to keep working at itMar 13th 2010

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A special report on managing information

Data, data everywhere

Information has gone from scarce to superabundant. That brings huge new benefits, says Kenneth Cukier—but also big headaches Feb 27th 2010

A special report on financial risk

The gods strike back

Financial risk got ahead of the world's ability to manage it. Matthew Valencia asks if it can be tamed again Feb 13th 2010

A special report on social networking

A world of connections

Online social networks are changing the way people communicate, work and play, and mostly for the better, says Martin Giles Jan 30th 2010

A special report on climate change and the carbon economy

Getting warmer

So far the effort to tackle global warming has achieved little. Copenhagen offers the chance to do better, says Emma Duncan Dec 5th 2009

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Forthcoming special reports

The Economist intends to publish the following special reports on the dates given. All topics and dates are subject to change without notice.

2010
American economy 3rd April
Innovation in emerging markets 17th April
Television 1st May
International banking 15th May
Water 22nd May
South Africa 5th June
Human genome 19th June
Debt 26th June
Egypt 10th July
Gambling 17th July
Latin America at 200 11th September
Forests 25th September
World economy 9th October
Turkey 23rd October
Smart systems 6th November
Japan 20th November
Editor's survey: role of the state 4th December

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