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Expert briefing
Publication date: 8 December 2022

Tunis has been in negotiations with the IMF for a new package all year. The government needs the UGTT’s support to implement any IMF deal, but relations between government and…

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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB274562

ISSN: 2633-304X

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Expert briefing
Publication date: 30 April 2021

The negotiations follow the government’s refusal last year to pay the final annual tranche of a previous three-year deal. Containing the public-sector wage bill is seen as key for…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 17 October 2016

Croatia's new government.

Expert briefing
Publication date: 22 January 2020

Chamisa’s call comes amid worsening political and economic crises and rising public frustration with President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the ruling ZANU-PF. Meanwhile, Mnangagwa’s…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 6 November 2019

This followed two days after Finance Minister Tito Mboweni’s Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS), which offered an honest assessment of the steep deterioration in the…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 30 October 2020

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…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 25 September 2019

The government has capitulated to demands by trade unions to lower the retirement age despite a growing demographic imbalance and public finances under strain. In the process…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 13 November 2017

The old guard’s resistance to reform.

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