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1 – 10 of 31This brings the three-year attempt to negotiate a debt-restructuring deal to a halt at the last hurdle. The parties must now try to salvage the deal before the end-of-year…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB283748
ISSN: 2633-304X
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According to the constitution, the next presidential election must take place in September-October 2024, but parliamentary polls are not due until 2025. Wickremesinghe is heavily…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB284210
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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…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB280381
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Vietnam signed a memorandum of understanding on developing such a line with Japan in 2006, but the National Assembly shelved the scheme in 2010. The new project could cost up to…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB272665
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Separately, the IMF’s Executive Board on March 20 approved a four-year, roughly USD3bn Extended Fund Facility for the country. The approval came around ten months after Sri Lanka…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB278564
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Prospects for Pakistan in 2023.
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB273993
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It followed the EU’s disbursement on April 25 of a third lending tranche of EUR1.5bn (USD1.65bn) from its EUR18.0bn macro-financial assistance package. In both cases, the money…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB278935
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Greece's Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with its international creditors assumes that privatisation proceeds will contribute significantly to the financing of Greece's third…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB206305
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SRI LANKA: Concessions may help government politically
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-ES266442
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The economy has been growing respectably, helped by rising exports, inward foreign direct investment (FDI), the ECB's quantitative easing and large inflows of EU structural funds…