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The Syriza government, trailing by a margin of around 10 percentage points (pp), has abandoned its commitment to creditors to reduce pensions and taxes in exchange for debt relief…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB244435
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The outlook for Gulf privatisation.
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB213556
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The coalition government of left-wing Syriza and right-wing nationalist Independent Greeks (Anel) significantly lags behind the conservative opposition New Democracy (ND) party in…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB224184
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The government’s commitment to fiscal consolidation is aimed at pleasing the IMF, with which Sri Lanka recently reached a staff-level agreement on a four-year, USD2.9bn bailout…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB274687
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The government, with half an eye on a snap election, is determined not to accede to prolonged austerity without the trade-off of significant debt relief. Timing is all. The…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB216610
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Opposition Syriza's economic policy programme.
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has reshuffled his cabinet to include ministers more accommodating to creditor demands. He is intent on concluding the second review rapidly in…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB216022
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Voters may return a left-leaning coalition led by the Coalition of the Radical Left (Syriza), which has pledged to renegotiate the country's massive debt and roll back many of the…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB197160
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The November 14 fire happened at a very old provincial hospital in Piatra Neamt in north-eastern Romania, but the January 29 tragedy was at one of Romania’s most modern and…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB259824
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Having passed a moderately expansionary 2018 budget, the government on January 1 started to levy value-added tax (VAT). It also cut subsidies on petroleum products.