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1 – 10 of 30The IMF recently recommended structural reforms to bolster the economy, which has struggled to recover from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Brunei has long been reliant on…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB284691
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East Timor is the only South-east Asian country categorised by the Freedom House organisation as completely ‘free’. Cambodia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand, as…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB275071
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Available second-quarter data indicate a shallower recession in most of the eleven eastern EU member states (EU-11) than the rest of the EU in January-June. This may be due to a…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB254471
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However, with a second wave underway and the mining and tourism sectors -- key foreign exchange earners -- upended, he recently changed tack, authorising an immunisation programme…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB260870
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The official baseline is for an 8.2% GDP contraction in 2020, and a 7.5% rebound in 2021. It took into account moderate restrictions on movement in winter 2020/21, but the…
Trump on March 16 ordered social distancing and many businesses’ closure for 15 days, to slow COVID-19’s spread and avoid overwhelming hospitals. Transport, tourism, leisure…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB251565
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This less-pronounced drop can be explained by a minor uptick in tourism, thanks to border reopening in July, and increased remittances. Improvement is expected to continue as the…
The situation has been attributed largely to the emergence of the highly contagious Omicron variant. Case numbers look set to continue rising for much of the first quarter of…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB266711
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Restrictions on the economy’s vital tourism branch are being lifted. However, airports outside Athens and Thessaloniki stay closed until June 30. Passengers from low-risk…
Temperatures reached 47 degrees Celsius -- the severest heatwave since 1987. About 100,000 hectares of forest were reduced to ashes in just two weeks in Attica, Evia and the…