Continuing strong growth and the positive outlook in local currency will, however, be hampered by uncurbed speculation in the Swiss franc.

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For all the unbuilt houses, uncreated jobs and uncurbed crime, it carries a weight of history and mythology that will not be quickly wiped out.

ECONOMIST: South Africa

Fears of uncurbed immigration, legal and illegal as Europe's internal borders fall away, may have boosted right-wing parties at the margins, enough sometimes to bring them to power.

ECONOMIST: France and Europe

Mr Milosevic cannot bring himself even to implement an agreement he signed with Mr Rugova a year ago which would have brought Kosovo's underground education system back, uncurbed, into the state system.

ECONOMIST: Kosovo