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Expert briefing
Publication date: 10 July 2023

According to a debt sustainability analysis published by the IMF in May, Laos is in debt distress. Years of rapid growth in borrowing to fund infrastructure development…

Executive summary
Publication date: 27 March 2020

CUBA: COVID-19 compounds strain on the economy

Expert briefing
Publication date: 13 December 2023

He was speaking at the signing ceremony for the first USD845mn grant bolstering the national budget, under a new agreement signed this year. The Gaza war has exacerbated concerns…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 24 April 2020

COVID-19 impact.

Expert briefing
Publication date: 8 March 2021

So far, state-sector price controls and price caps on food and private markets have prevented runaway inflation. However, producers are withholding goods or selling on the black…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 28 July 2020

The economy, however, is in dire straits. Widespread shortages of everyday supplies are reminiscent of the crisis that followed collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s. Economic…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 20 July 2015

In the absence of external funding, capital controls will remain. Banks will allow depositors to withdraw up to 420 euros (456 dollars)/week at one go rather than in daily…

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