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Woody biomass for energy use will face rising scrutiny

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INTERNATIONAL

There is an obvious tension between promoting forests to capture carbon and burning wood for energy. Increased demand risks unsustainable indirect changes of land use. However…

Latin America's Pacific Alliance faces doubtful future

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LATIN AMERICA

Most members have elected left-of-centre governments that are less committed than their predecessors to pro-business and globalising economic models. A damaging split between…

ECB has further scope to support spending

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EU

The unprecedented volume of ECB bond purchases, and the liquidity of the secondary debt market, have supported economies through the COVID-19 pandemic. Concerns persist that…

China’s digital currency plans will steadily advance

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CHINA

In September, the deputy governor of the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) announced that four of city-level trials would be expanded to the provincial scale in the near future to…

ASEAN capital market linkage faces regulatory hurdles

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ASEAN

The challenges facing ASEAN capital market integration ahead of the ASEAN Economic Community.

Opportunity opens for new Greek government bond issues

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GREECE

Greek debt’s improving attractiveness.

War in Ukraine will impel Kazakhstan to diversify

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KAZAKHSTAN

Kazakhstan’s economy has weathered well the turbulences created by the war in Ukraine. A new context for the country’s traditional aspirations to balance and diversify economic…

China cannot offset Western sanctions on Russia

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CHINA/RUSSIA

It has also denied engaging in discussions with Moscow about providing military assistance, a claim the US government has made to allied nations.

Russia seeks help from friends for sanctions evasion

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RUSSIA

The US government has named Kazakhstan and many other countries as routes by which sanctioned goods have reached Russia, but has refrained from hitting them with secondary…

War in Ukraine creates opportunities for Central Asia

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CENTRAL ASIA

The war in Ukraine has changed the dynamics of interaction between Russia and the Central Asian countries, which have been traditionally a source of migrant labour. Despite rising…