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When credit rating agency Standard & Poor's downgraded Brazil's foreign currency debt to 'junk' status on September 9, it cited "political challenges" "weighing on the…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB204337
ISSN: 2633-304X
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Rise of left-wing populists in East and Southern Africa.
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB221004
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Traditionally, Germany has been cautious about defence spending and build-up. However, the defence ministry now wants to reorganise the Bundeswehr (armed forces) so that it…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB236026
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Private schooling in Poland appears to be a growth industry. This development, often blamed on the educational reforms implemented by the current Law and Justice (PiS…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB260980
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Prospects for US politics to end-2019.
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB244374
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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…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB257211
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However, cuts to the social grants budget and a continued focus on the planned three-year wage freeze for civil servants has annoyed (among others) the ruling ANC's ‘Tripartite…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB259790
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This spending is needed as manufacturers are under pressure to re-engineer their businesses by deploying technologies to enhance productivity and develop and scale new products…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB243754
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Finance Minister Alfonso Prat-Gay described it as "based on the truth", but it relies on several optimistic assumptions, in particular on growth and inflation rates. Government…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB213692
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Inflation is lower than in other major EU economies and unemployment is falling, albeit from a high base, as the country approaches presidential elections in April.