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London summit will improve global tax transparency

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INTERNATIONAL

Anti-corruption summit outcome.

Hungary’s economy is vulnerable without EU funds

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HUNGARY

The package targets banking, energy, retail, telecommunications, airlines, pharmaceuticals and advertising: service sectors where multinationals have important stakes. It is one…

Oil boom will bring emerging risks in Guyana

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GUYANA

During previous commodity booms, involving sugar, the Guyanese economy saw GDP growth accelerated for 1-2 years before slowing as sugar prices reverted to their long-term trend…

Slovenia's window of opportunity to reform is closing

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SLOVENIA

The economy has been growing respectably, helped by rising exports, inward foreign direct investment (FDI), the ECB's quantitative easing and large inflows of EU structural funds…

Balance will be elusive in fragile Argentine economy

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ARGENTINA

The move, which has angered the farming sector, is one of several announcements aimed at boosting revenues in order to avoid austerity, and at generating enthusiasm among the…

Oil price drop piles more pressure on Iran's economy

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IRAN

Iranian officials appear to have been caught off guard by the collapse in oil prices. The draft budget for the fiscal year 2015-16 (March-March) was presented to the legislature…

Economic improvements in Mali will be too slow

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MALI

Ranked 184th out of 189 countries in the UN’s 2019 Human Development Index, Mali faces long-standing economic and development challenges. In addition, the north and east of the…

COVID-19 crisis could alter Angolan power dynamics

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ANGOLA

Various restrictions are being eased, and parts of the economy gradually reopened, although a sanitary cordon around Luanda remains. Angola has 73 confirmed COVID-19 cases…

Iraq’s three-year budget will promote state capture

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IRAQ

Parliament on June 12 approved a three-year budget mandating record high expenditure, including an increased public sector wage bill that accounts for a large proportion of…

South Africa’s government faces major tax dilemmas

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SOUTH AFRICA

Wealth, inheritance and ‘solidarity’ taxes are being considered -- with the latter recently flagged as one solution to pay for COVID-19 vaccine procurement and pandemic-related…