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Low unemployment hides slack in Japan's labour market

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JAPAN

Japan's labour market.

Millennials give US unions hope but need new focus

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UNITED STATES

Unions remain well-entrenched in the public sector, but their influence has fallen in much of the private sector. One exception is workers in knowledge-based industries, often…

Japan GDP slump masks social and economic change

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JAPAN

Japan's changing services sector.

AMLO contradictions fuel Mexico business uncertainty

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MEXICO

Tensions between business leaders and AMLO escalated in May, after he accused several prominent businesspeople of conspiring with the government and putting pressure on their…

Romania cannot replace Ukrainian agriculture overnight

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ROMANIA

Raising the availability and quality of inputs, training the labour force properly, using digital tools in operations, achieving energy self-sufficiency from renewables and…

South Africa's SAA points to wider reform headaches

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SOUTH AFRICA

Uncertainty persists over SAA’s turnaround strategy, as well as that for other ailing SOEs including arms manufacturer Denel and the Land Bank. Operational problems at troubled…

Further Romanian growth will require structural reform

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ROMANIA

Growth prospects.

Dinar ban will damage EU-led Kosovo-Serbia dialogue

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KOSOVO

A Central Bank regulation reaffirming the euro as sole legal tender has alarmed Kosovo’s Serbs who see it as a direct threat to their existence and is jeopardising already complex…