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Belarus economic woes may complicate presidential poll

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BELARUS

This year started with a contraction of first-quarter GDP, after two years of very slow growth. Industrial output contracted as well. As world oil prices have dropped, Belarus no…

Domestic demand will drive Mexico's auto industry

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MEXICO

Outlook for the auto sector.

Low demand will curb Russian car sector after COVID

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RUSSIA

Manufacturing plant shutdowns and plummeting demand for new cars cut into output and sales. The continuing decline in real disposable income is shifting customers to the…

Further Romanian growth will require structural reform

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ROMANIA

Growth prospects.

Economic success will elude Macri in Argentina

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ARGENTINA

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…

Mexican auto sector may struggle in 2017

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MEXICO

Trump has threatened numerous car manufacturers in recent weeks, in an apparent effort to bring back or retain US manufacturing jobs. While his comments have been downplayed by…

Trade and politics will weigh on Spanish economy

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SPAIN

Slowdown in the Spanish economy.

Brazil's third-quarter bounceback may not be sustained

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BRAZIL

The negative effects of the COVID-19 pandemic are still affecting the Brazilian economy. After a sharp recession in the first two quarters of the year, the economy partially…

Rapid recovery will prove elusive in Argentina

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ARGENTINA

The primary surplus (0.6% of GDP) was driven by a 35% real fall in primary spending, which offset a recession-induced 4.5% drop in revenues. Month-on-month inflation has also…

India’s second-hand economy will grow fast

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INDIA

As the economic fallout of COVID-19 hits incomes and livelihoods, business-to-consumer (B2C) and consumer-to-consumer (C2C) transactions in the second-hand sector look set to…