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Debt overhang threatens Kenya’s infrastructure plans

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KENYA

Kenya's debt difficulties.

Caribbean debt initiatives highlight disaster impact

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CARIBBEAN

Multilateral debt relief options.

Greece may regain investment grade in 2023

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GREECE

Passage from speculative to investment grade (IG) would mark the end of the sovereign debt crisis besetting the country since 2009. The upgrade would lower government borrowing…

More negative-yield bonds raise euro-area bank risks

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INTERNATIONAL

Negative yields.

Recovery will depend on Greek cooperation with lenders

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GREECE

Greece’s relationship with its creditors.

South-east Asian state enterprise will change markedly

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SOUTH-EAST ASIA

Reforms to state-owned enteprises across South-east Asia.

Laos’s fiscal improvement efforts will face headwinds

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LAOS

Amid continuing concerns about public spending and debt levels, Laos’s finance ministry in mid-October enacted its largest foreign bond issue yet. An October report by the…

IMF inclined to shun third Greek bailout

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GREECE/INT

EU institutions have offered modest debt restructuring but are demanding higher levels of repayments for a decade, financed by tax hikes and spending cuts that would be legislated…

Greek government will implement austerity grudgingly

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GREECE

Falling bond yields suggest some return of confidence after the government's legislation of further cuts and reforms, and the successful conclusion of the second review of…

Greek recovery will attract institutional investors

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GREECE

The new issue’s main purpose was to build up a benchmark yield curve to facilitate the sovereign’s future access to capital markets and, ultimately, pave the way for the broader…