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1 – 10 of 11President Nayib Bukele is highly popular, having implemented hard-line security policies that have reduced murder rates dramatically. He was re-elected in February by a landslide…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB286620
ISSN: 2633-304X
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GDP growth slowed to 3.3% year-on-year in the first quarter. The slowdown was mainly due to the decline in exports, with Vietnam’s top export markets -- the United States, the EU…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB279855
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The economy is on track to grow by 5.3% year-on-year in 2022, outperforming market expectations for the second year in a row. In a sign of its recovery, Greece left the EU's…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB273640
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GREECE: Tsipras cannot please pro- and anti-marketeers
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-ES226268
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However, supply is struggling to keep pace with demand, and dislocation effects plus shortages of some critical goods and workers are raising prices. GDP growth forecasts for 2021…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB262474
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Sri Lanka’s foreign exchange (forex) reserves fell to USD1.6bn at end-November, enough to finance only about one month’s imports. Colombo has in recent years relied on…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB266266
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The government nevertheless remains under pressure from domestic critics and external stakeholders because of dwindling foreign exchange (forex) reserves and a growing debt…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB263250
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In July, a revised finance law was issued for 2020, as the impacts of policy responses to the pandemic rendered the original budget assumptions obsolete.
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB255214
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In a bid to support the recovery of its pandemic-hit economy, it late last year issued its first sovereign bond, for local investors. Separately, boundary disputes with China…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB261757
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Prospects for emerging economies to end-2016.