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Expert briefing
Publication date: 10 August 2016

The cabinet enters office just in time to host a fresh visit from the IMF, expected later this month. Despite another landslide victory in parliamentary elections on April 24…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 28 February 2023

The Election Commission of Sri Lanka (ECSL) confirmed on February 24 that the polls would not be held on March 9 as planned. A day earlier, President Ranil Wickremesinghe claimed…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 13 July 2020

Whereas developed economies and China have benefited from USD9tn in fiscal stimulus and USD5tn in liquidity, EMs have less scope because they cannot issue local-currency debt…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 21 April 2023

Separately, the IMF’s Executive Board on March 20 approved a four-year, roughly USD3bn Extended Fund Facility for the country. The approval came around ten months after Sri Lanka…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 2 November 2022

President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who promised to deliver the amendment, assumed office in July amid a wave of protests that forced his predecessor Gotabaya Rajapaksa to resign. As…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 22 January 2020

Chamisa’s call comes amid worsening political and economic crises and rising public frustration with President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the ruling ZANU-PF. Meanwhile, Mnangagwa’s…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 7 November 2023

The Chinese leadership is meeting this month to discuss economic reforms. High-level dialogue with the United States has resumed, allowing the two sides to work on surface-level…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 26 March 2019

The global reach of Germany's fiscal scope.

Expert briefing
Publication date: 9 June 2021

The government’s plan signals not only a new era in Hungarian-Chinese relations but also China’s more intensive presence within the EU. Heated debates within Hungary and the EU…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 2 June 2023

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…

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