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The 2018 currency crisis left the economy in one of the deepest downturns of the last decade, repeating the cyclical pattern in place since 2011 of one year of growth followed by…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB240627
ISSN: 2633-304X
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This is close to the ceiling of the target band of 2.25-5.25% set for this year. In response, the Central Bank last week raised its benchmark interest rate from a record low of…
Outlook for the Swiss economy.
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB212520
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This is bad news for the ruling Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN), which has been losing support thanks to El Salvador’s weak security situation and widespread…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB230250
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The largest annual rise was for food, by 30.9% (3.3% month-on-month). Many Hungarians are expecting their living standards to decline, with costs rising also for some public…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB272664
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Forces from the centre-right last won a presidential election in 1998, but remained the main opposition until the mid-2010s, when a far-reaching crisis destroyed the prevailing…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB263334
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Population growth and resource scarcity.
President Alberto Fernandez has appointed new social development and labour ministers, Victoria Tolosa Paz and Raquel Olmos, following the resignations of their predecessors amid…
One study suggests that 1.5 million middle-class people lost their jobs in 2020. Despite government assistance programmes to keep employees in work and ease home-buying, the…
The country’s poverty rate stood at 52.4% in 2020 according to the World Bank, a 5-percentage-point increase on the level prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. The World Bank…