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Prospects for the global economy in 2021

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PROSPECTS 2021

Europe and the United States may slip back into recession in the northern hemisphere winter. If vaccination succeeds, the advanced economies will recover robustly from mid-2021…

COVID-19 impact will extend recession in Argentina

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ARGENTINA

The impact of COVID-19.

Pandemic to worsen recession and instability in Haiti

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HAITI

World Bank and IMF financial support totalling USD142mn, in the form of grants and zero-interest loans, will help partially to cover increasing external and fiscal financing gaps…

Rising Argentina COVID cases represent economic risk

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ARGENTINA

ARGENTINA: Rising COVID cases represent economic risk

Mexico tourism recovery is fragile

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MEXICO

MEXICO: Tourism recovery is fragile

Dominican Republic tourism begins fragile recovery

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DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

Accounting directly and indirectly for 16-17% of GDP in 2019, tourism is a major plank of the Dominican economy and will be key to broader economic recovery in 2021. With that in…

COVID-19 will hit northern Central America hard

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CENTRAL AMERICA

COVID-19.

Prospects for the global economy to end-2021

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PROSPECTS H2 2021

However, supply is struggling to keep pace with demand, and dislocation effects plus shortages of some critical goods and workers are raising prices. GDP growth forecasts for 2021…

Anti-virus measures will hurt Greek economic revival

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GREECE

In Greece, a country of 10 million people, 114 patients are in intensive care for COVID-19, of whom 35 are breathing through tubes (‘intubated’). The vulnerability of the…

Coronavirus puts Egypt tourism and remittances at risk

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EGYPT

Coronavirus economic impact.