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1 – 8 of 8This step is essential to advancing the country’s economic reform agenda, but it promises to be tricky, putting pressure on inefficient state companies, threatening savings and…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB257017
ISSN: 2633-304X
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Price hikes for petrol, electricity, water and gas are among several adjustment measures that will drive up living costs, compounding already high inflation. Meanwhile…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB285006
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This is close to the ceiling of the target band of 2.25-5.25% set for this year. In response, the Central Bank last week raised its benchmark interest rate from a record low of…
National GDP nevertheless contracted by just 1.5% in 2020 -- less than almost any other country in Latin America. Resilient remittances and exports, coupled with unprecedented…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB260765
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The economy, however, is in dire straits. Widespread shortages of everyday supplies are reminiscent of the crisis that followed collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s. Economic…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB254181
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The pandemic has strengthened Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s position in the short term. However, the government has done little on the economic front; a conservative stimulus…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB252906
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The Dominican Republic and COVID-19.
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB252949
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A lack of testing may have led to an underestimation of infections, but with a population of 130 million, Mexico appears relatively unscathed by the pandemic so far. The virus…