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Expert briefing
Publication date: 30 September 2019

EU-Africa trade talks.

Expert briefing
Publication date: 21 May 2024

In his swearing-in speech, he said “the more experienced ministers” would “provide continuity” but also warned that Singapore would be “vulnerable to external influences” pulling…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 24 October 2022

Slovakia’s Soviet inheritance has exposed it to the massive economic fallout from the Kremlin’s full-scale aggression against Ukraine, its efforts to squeeze natural gas supplies…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 26 August 2015

The Justice and Development Party (AKP) has abandoned its long-stalled 'peace process' with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). In response, the PKK has ended its ceasefire…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 27 November 2020

World Bank and IMF financial support totalling USD142mn, in the form of grants and zero-interest loans, will help partially to cover increasing external and fiscal financing gaps…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 26 March 2020

The steep fall in global oil prices and rapid spread of COVID-19 have ended hopes of economic revival in 2020. The government has allocated 300 billion rubles (4 billion dollars…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 26 July 2023

The economy faces chronic problems of low growth, joblessness and declining living standards, resulting in periodic protests. Its heavy dependence on foreign aid, especially from…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 9 August 2016

However, while US policies are a pull-factor for migrants, recent domestic problems also provide powerful reasons to leave Cuba, which has fallen into the worst economic crisis…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 7 May 2020

Gas pressures.

Expert briefing
Publication date: 16 August 2017

This falls just short of a 'famine' warning -- which would require 20% of households to face catastrophe levels, as well as heightened malnutrition and mortality rates. The UN has…

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