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Books

At an international conference for crime writers, Tim Heald attempts to unravel the financial mysteries of foreign crime fiction

Features

Shot in the arm for safety

Shot in the arm for safety

UK entrepreneur Marc Koska is selling his unique auto-disable syringes around the world to make injections safer, says Laura Staples

A bitter pill to swallow

A bitter pill to swallow

The counterfeit drugs industry has a devastating effect on poor African countries. Katrina Manson reports from Sierra Leone on the investment initiatives helping to improve supplies of safe drugs

Investor

Not ladies who lunch, but women who get things done

Not ladies who lunch, but women who get things done

For the price of a Prada handbag, you could pay the salary of a teacher in an Indian orphanage for two years, says Mike Dickson. No wonder so many women are turning their hands to philanthropy

Mind Your Own Beeswax

Veronica, daughter of The Spectator’s Dot Wordsworth, provides a monthly guide to
the jargon of the financial world

In this week's issue

‘These clouds will have a silver lining’

Judi Bevan meets Sir John Parker, who chairs National Grid and the Court of the Bank of England — and takes an optimistic view of the deepening recession

Judi Bevan

Twelve steps to market meltdown

Stephen Vines says stock markets may seem wildly volatile at times of crisis, but they always follow a pattern

Stephen Vines

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