Unlike the managerial techniques of targets and performance management, this has the potential to ginger up the public services through real competition.

ECONOMIST: Blair's government

This week's report suggests that she will argue for further steps to release more land together with reforms to ginger up the industry and tax incentives to encourage more institutional investment in property.

ECONOMIST: No he can't

At the bustling Chaonei Nanxiaojie farmers market in Beijing, vendors complain the prices of eggplants, ginger and garlic have gone up at much as 30 percent in the past six months.

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With the zeal of a convert, she has banned glowing screens from her bedroom, drinks ginger juice in lieu of morning coffee, uses a Jawbone Up bracelet to track her sleep and got AOL to install nap rooms for her employees.

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