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drought that is sweeping Southern Africa. This drought has had a serious impact both on the economy and on food security …
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The geo-economy presents Lebanon with challenges associated with being a nexus for regional fault lines and risks from … Syrian refugees (in proportion to the population). In addition, the economy's dependence on its diaspora to finance internal … and other changes in policy on the outlook for Lebanon. Its coverage ranges from the macro-economy to financial markets to …
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Global economic activity is showing little sign of improvement in 2016, but growth in the emerging East Asia and the Pacific remains resilient. In Vietnam economic activity moderated in the first half of 2016, mainly due to the impact of a severe drought on agricultural production and slower...
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tourism, construction, investment and exports. As such, the economy slowed down for the first time since 2010, further …
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There has been significant development of Mali's banking sector in recent years, but it remains shallow, and access to banking services is limited. With the opening of a new bank in 2014, there are now 14 commercial banks operating in Mali. There has been a positive evolution of the banking...
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months in Indonesia's economy, and places these in a longerterm and global context. Based on these developments, and on … policy changes over the period, the IEQ regularly updates the outlook for Indonesia's economy and social welfare. Second, the … participants, and the community of analysts and professionals engaged in Indonesia's evolving economy. This paper discusses about …
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(JPOA), Iran's economy rebounded in 20141 and is estimated to have expanded by 0.5 percent in 2015. A less accommodative …
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Iraq is facing daunting challenges of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) insurgency, political upheaval, and profound economic and humanitarian crises. Compounding the ISIS-related crisis, the sharp decline in global oil prices has resulted in significant decline in oil export revenues....
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The World Bank is sharing the seventh edition of the Economic Update of Madagascar, which presents our analysis for the period up to the beginning of October 2017 and provides our medium-term economic outlook. Despite a challenging start due to two climatic shocks, we project growth at 4.1...
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This report reviews South Africa's recent economic and social developments. It underlines that South Africa's current economic rebound may not be sustained if the fundamental factors undermining its growth potential are not boldly addressed. This includes in particular income inequality, which...
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