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Mexico social policy will bring rewards and risks

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MEXICO

Such moves have proven highly popular and may go some way towards explaining the enduring popularity of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) in the face of high crime…

Mexico’s poverty approach will prolong mixed results

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MEXICO

The paper highlights the labour system’s role in perpetuating poverty in Mexico, where more than half of the economically active population is poor despite being employed. The…

US homeless numbers will be slow to fall

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UNITED STATES

Voters increasingly associate homelessness with two other political issues: concern about immigration and a perception that urban crime is increasing. This is complicating efforts…

US Social Security funds to run out ahead of schedule

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UNITED STATES

Demographic pressures from an ageing society weigh less heavily on the United States than many other economies but they are now placing stress on a Social Security system that…

Poverty, insecurity portend volatile Nigerien poll

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NIGER

This complicates electoral preparations ahead of presidential polls on February 21. The contest is likely to be tense given recent clampdowns on regime critics, including the…

Trump appointees will undercut US federal programmes

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UNITED STATES

Some hard-right members of the Republican congressional caucus argue that allowing federal spending to lapse and threatening a government shutdown could force legislators to…

Costa Rica’s pension system faces crisis

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COSTA RICA

Pension pressures in Costa Rica.

Arevalo would pursue political change in Guatemala

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GUATEMALA

Torres (a well-known, broadly status-quo candidate, and former first lady) will face the largely untested Bernardo Arevalo, who surprised pollsters by coming second, on a…

Dissatisfaction with Burkinabe government could mount

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BURKINA FASO

Rising instability in Burkina Faso

Mauritania’s new president will focus on inequality

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MAURITANIA

Ould Ghazouani’s campaign in June focused on social and regional inequalities and the need for a more independent judicial system. Since taking office in August, Ould Ghazouani…