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COVID-19 may trigger an ideological shift over decades

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INTERNATIONAL

Research by Thomas Piketty shows that a form of free-market ideology has been a key driver of rising income inequality since the 1980s. The airing of alternative ideas, the…

Costa Rica fiscal reform looks doomed to fail

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COSTA RICA

Fiscal reform protests.

Prospects for South Africa to end-2021

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PROSPECTS H2 2021

Prospects for South Africa to end-2021.

Row over key law will intensify in Indonesia

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INDONESIA

The regulation, issued on February 2, comes amid ongoing controversy over the job creation law which President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo’s government enacted in November 2020. In…

Syria-Turkey rapprochement faces many obstacles

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SYRIA/TURKEY

The meeting would be the two leaders' first in eleven years, as the culmination of a meeting of their defence ministers and intelligence chiefs in Moscow in late December and…

Syria's political opposition will reject peace talks

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SYRIA

The most important segments of the non-jihadist opposition to the regime of President Bashar al-Assad have unified in the 'Riyadh opposition'. However, rival blocs that are not…

All sides set conditions for Greek debt breakthrough

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GREECE

The IMF insists that Greece’s debt must be made sustainable before it will again participate in programme financing. Yet IMF participation is required if the bailout plan is to…

Venezuelan political processes sideline civil society

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VENEZUELA

A decade after his death, a recent Datanalisis poll gives Chavez the highest approval rating of any political leader, at 56%, compared with 22% for his successor Nicolas Maduro…

Kosovo-Serbia crisis will undermine EU credibility

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KOSOVO/SERBIA

The West has been traditionally supportive of Kosovo, having backed the country’s independence from Serbia in 2008. However, it now blames Kosovo's prime minister, Albin Kurti…

Donors look divided over approaches to the Sahel

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SAHEL

The conference raised approximately USD1bn for 2020, and USD725mn for 2021. This met the organisers’ target for the conference itself, but fell short of the USD2.4bn the UN says…