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The president’s utterances mark a shift from his previous calls for a roundtable dialogue with opposition protest leaders, who on June 7 organised the largest mass protest since…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB244762
ISSN: 2633-304X
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The demonstrations were triggered by Assad’s mid-August announcement of big fuel price increases, only partly mitigated by rises in salaries and pensions. However, they have been…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB281840
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Since its introduction in February, the local real-time gross settlement (RTGS) dollar, a de facto new local currency, has lost over 60% of its value relative to the US dollar on…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB244607
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These shocks will sustain already heightened reform pressures on the government during a period of diminishing public revenue. Security crises across various states and regions…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB257599
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IRAN: Stated subsidy plans will prove unsustainable
Prospects for Iran to end-2018.
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB235804
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LEBANON: Economic hopelessness may feed violence
IRAQ: Baghdad may devalue the dinar
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-ES258252
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LEBANON: Beirut may need emergency fuel and food aid
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-ES261882
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IRAN/US: Trump’s bellicose approach may backfire