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Expert briefing
Publication date: 30 November 2020

While the G20's new Common Framework for Debt Treatments provides a new mechanism for debt restructuring, it also requires Zambia to convince the IMF that it has disclosed all of…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 1 June 2020

The pandemic has strengthened Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s position in the short term. However, the government has done little on the economic front; a conservative stimulus…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 17 November 2020

Georgia's opposition refuses to accept the October 31 election result. While the government will use the visit as evidence of solid US support, its critics will scrutinise…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 28 February 2024

Many centrist and reformist candidates have been disqualified or declined to stand. This, together with the poor state of the economy and resentment over money spent abroad on…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 28 August 2019

Amid escalating external debt, President Edgar Lungu’s administration recently directed the liquidation of KCM, majority-owned by Vedanta, and is suspected to want to sell these…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 17 May 2023

Inflation has subsided owing to base effects. War, sanctions, geopolitical isolation and economic restructuring have already undermined population living standards, with poorer…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 14 September 2020

The suspension of Turkey’s exploratory activities in the eastern Mediterranean as scheduled eases tensions with Greece and could allow for diplomacy. President Recep Tayyip…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 27 November 2020

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…

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