Overview.

The article describes how industrial-production growth is picking up speed in several countries. Output is growing most spectacularly in China where production rose by 17.2% in the year to October. It is also increasing at an impressive rate in Turkey, with production up by 12.7% in the 12 months to September. Hungary remains the most stable emerging economy of those monitored by Lehman Brothers and the Eurasia Group, a firm that analyses political risk. According to their political-stability index, which tries to measure a country's ability both to withstand crises and to avoid generating them, Hungary scores 74 out of a possible 100, down from a score of 78 a year ago.