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Expert briefing
Publication date: 5 February 2024

Price hikes for petrol, electricity, water and gas are among several adjustment measures that will drive up living costs, compounding already high inflation. Meanwhile…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 8 May 2017

Political challenges facing Havana.

Expert briefing
Publication date: 16 April 2018

The 57-year-old heir apparent -- Vice-President Miguel Diaz-Canel -- was born after the 1959 revolution and represents a symbolic generational shift. However, Castro’s continued…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 28 May 2020

Various restrictions are being eased, and parts of the economy gradually reopened, although a sanitary cordon around Luanda remains. Angola has 73 confirmed COVID-19 cases…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 10 June 2016

Short- and longer-term prospects for recovery in Russia.

Expert briefing
Publication date: 26 May 2016

The release of the 32-page document follows the historic visit of US President Barack Obama in March, and the PCC congress in April, which the government used to reaffirm the…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 2 September 2019

The October 13 parliamentary election will be one of the most important and consequential since 1989. If PiS wins, it will entrench and continue pushing ahead with its radical…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 1 July 2021

Government finances crashed last year as Chinese demand for natural gas, Turkmenistan's main export, dropped sharply owing to the impact of COVID-19.

Expert briefing
Publication date: 14 September 2022

A technologically advanced ‘modern’ sector coexists with a ‘traditional’ sector in which productivity is low, technology basic and employment precarious. The government has…

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