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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
ISSN: 2633-304X
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Moscow is a key partner in opposing Western hegemony, but Pakistan is the closest thing China has to an ally and depends increasingly on Chinese support. Territorial and economic…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB256646
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This follows the finalisation in October of a new electoral law introducing a higher degree of proportional representation (PR), and fraught parliamentary agreement on…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB257969
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Trump’s statement will provide a fillip for President Nicolas Maduro. This will prove temporary, though. The country faces a spiralling economic crisis and a debilitating credit…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB223768
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President Nicolas Maduro’s beleaguered government will seek to sidestep sanctions on the Venezuelan oil sector announced by the United States on January 28. Some technical aspects…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB241543
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The advent of a new US administration has presented Egypt with an opportunity to reaffirm its regional strategic importance, but also created new risks.
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB259015
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President Idriss Deby has struggled to turn the economy around after oil prices collapsed, depriving Chad of its main source of income. This has led to civil unrest and strikes.
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB221417
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New Vice-President Tareck El Aissami, currently governor of Aragua state, is a controversial appointment owing to allegations of complicity in drug and terrorism networks…