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Ecuador's Correa slashes spending to appease investors

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ECUADOR

The impact of fiscal austerity on growth and the re-election outlook.

East Africa budgets face rising external risks

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EAST AFRICA

East Africa's 2015-16 budgets

Sri Lanka move on domestic debt will be of limited use

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SRI LANKA

Securing debt restructuring agreements is a key condition of the four-year, USD3bn Extended Fund Facility (EFF) programme which the IMF’s Executive Board approved in March…

Georgia vulnerable to external factors despite growth

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GEORGIA

Georgian economic developments.

Solutions struggle to cut EU small-firm funding woes

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EU

This financing gap -- between what SMEs require to meet expansion targets and what they can raise from internal or external sources -- has been estimated at 1.1-2.2% of GDP…

Sri Lanka faces several obstacles in debt talks

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SRI LANKA

Sri Lanka must attend to debt restructuring as part of its four-year, USD3bn bailout programme with the Fund. The Fund’s Executive Board approved the bailout in March, roughly ten…

Prospects for African economies to end-2019

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PROSPECTS H2 2019

African Economies H2 2019.

Factors domestic and foreign will slow Georgia's GDP

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GEORGIA

Georgia's economic slowdown.

Petrobras undermines Brazil's investment efforts

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BRAZIL

A lagging economy, declining global commodity prices and the crippling corruption crisis affecting state-owned oil giant Petrobras (estimated at 17 billion dollars in losses) have…

Political pressure on Turkey's Central Bank will go on

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TURKEY

The CBRT is expected to respond at its regular monthly interest rate-setting meeting to the fall in inflation in January to 7.2%. However, while the nearly 50% slide in oil…