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South African budget plans may prove too ambitious

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SOUTH AFRICA

However, the MTBPS relies even more heavily on getting powerful public-sector unions to agree to unprecedented wage freezes over the next three years, putting its credibility in…

Reforms' concrete impact on Turkey may not be obvious

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TURKEY

The outlook for economic reform.

Riyadh’s judicial reforms will help drive investments

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SAUDI ARABIA

Measures include a new civil code, the Civil Transactions Law, which came into effect in December 2023 and aims to provide comprehensive coverage of all aspects of contracts…

Nigerian companies law faces capacity constraints

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NIGERIA

The amendment officially seeks to improve the ease of doing business by establishing a more efficient means of regulating businesses and minimising the compliance burden for small…

New Indonesian business task force is unlikely to work

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INDONESIA

This followed Jokowi’s adoption on October 10 of his administration’s 16th Economic Policy Package. The resultant Presidential Decree 91/2017 on the Acceleration of Business…

Jokowi’s haste could hinder effort to boost investment

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INDONESIA

Indonesia's proposed omnibus laws.

Putin is unlikely to tempt Russia’s wealthy to return

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RUSSIA

Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Leonid Volkov, among others, contend that imposing sanctions on critics of the war is unfair, and that other sanctioned elites might be encouraged to…

China will keep treating private firms with disfavour

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CHINA

The NPC Standing Committee that same week expanded the State Secrets Law. Information clampdowns denting business confidence undermine efforts to boost the private sector and…

Boom will fail to put Romanian economy on firm footing

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ROMANIA

Shortcomings in economic management.

Angola's Lourenco will assert his increased control

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ANGOLA

Lourenco reform efforts.