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The government regards joining the OECD as a national objective. Having opened accession negotiations in January 2022 and received its roadmap that June, the publication last…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB286221
ISSN: 2633-304X
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The decline in the workforce as a share of the population will take a toll on economic output and put pressure on government finances.
To enact the bill by end-December and avoid potential defeat, the minority National Liberal (PNL) government side-stepped a vote by ‘assuming responsibility’ for the bill before…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB249686
ISSN: 2633-304X
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Policies in the 1980s to restrict the birth rate gave China a demographic dividend, with an enlarged working population driving GDP growth, but that has been exhausted. The…
Days before this announcement, the government asked Congress to approve a primary deficit of up to 96.65 billion reais (some 1.5% of GDP) for this year. The sharp deterioration in…
The announcement would mark the largest subnational bankruptcy in US history, with Puerto Rico facing debt obligations of 73 billion dollars from an array of public entities and…