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US Secretary of State in Kazakhstan
RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS · In Brief · 01 Mar 2023

Antony Blinken held talks in Kazakhstan with President Tokayev. In Kazakhstan met the foreign ministers of Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. He then flew to Uzbekistan.  The US does not want Central Asian countries to support Russia over Ukraine. All five of them abstained in t...

Details of Minera Panama´s new contract remain secret. Implementation of the new base year improves the fiscal ratios slightly. The political scenario heats up fifteen months before the general elections.
PANAMA · Report · 01 Mar 2023 · 1 response

February is coming to an end, and there is no official indication that the conclusion of the new agreement between Minera Panama and the Executive will be reached in the coming weeks. The company indicated that it would phase down its mining and export operations and suggested that direct employm...

Air raid sirens sound in west Russia: hacking or real raids?
RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS · In Brief · 28 Feb 2023

On February 28 the sirens went off in the regions adjacent to Ukraine. The government said that the sirens had been started by hackers setting them off despite their not being attacks. The sirens are heard via TV and radio. On February 21 such sirens were heard in many other Russian regions. Nota...

Next challenge: tackling structural problems.
CENTRAL AMERICA · Report · 28 Feb 2023 · 1 response

Costa Rica is expected to maintain discipline in public finances under the fiscal rule implemented in the 2018 legislation, although shielding the fiscal advances to reinforce medium and long-term sustainability is important. Public policies are a next step in addressing several lagged social and...

Ukraine says its troops in Bakhmut are under severe pressure
RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS · In Brief · 28 Feb 2023

On February 28 Kyiv made the statement about the city which has been under Russian attack for months. It seems that Russia is desperate to win a battle for the first time since the summer of 2022. Almost every building in Bakhmut is damaged or destroyed. The city has salt mines and used to produc...

Today's Monetary Council meeting went (almost) exactly as expected
HUNGARY · In Brief · 28 Feb 2023

The Council did not change the base rate (13%) and the interest rate corridor(12.5-25%) today, and it specifically said that the O/N deposit rate (18%) also remains unchanged, and  it will remain so for a while in the future as well. The Council made decisions on two issues: 1. The Bank will cont...

My way or the highway
COLOMBIA · Report · 28 Feb 2023 · 1 response

Mainstream indicators reveal a pessimistic sentiment: the COP exchange rate, migration data, capital flight, consumer sentiment and surveys about the state of the nation under President Gustavo Petro all indicate a souring of outlook. Colombians are visibly moving either their assets or their bod...

Consumption leads growth yet another quarter
TURKEY · Report · 28 Feb 2023

GDP rose by 3.5%, y/y, in 2022Q4, higher than the consensus forecast of under 3% expansion (but broadly in line with ours), as sequential growth picked up to just under 1%, from an almost flat reading in the previous quarter (Graph 1). For the year as a whole, GDP grew by a faster than expecte...

Lula has a meeting to discuss the return of federal taxes on fuel, the working group on Tax Reform should meet to discuss the work plan, and the terms of two Central Bank directors come to an end today
BRAZIL POLITICS · Report · 28 Feb 2023

President Lula meets with Chief of Staff Rui Costa, Finance Minister Fernando Haddad, Minister of Mines and Energy Alexandre Silveira, and the president of Petrobras, Jean Paul Prates. The new formula will result in a progressive recharging of federal taxes on fuels. The working group created to ...

The rise of Eastern Indonesia
INDONESIA · Report · 28 Feb 2023

The Indonesian economy posted an encouraging result for Q4 2022 with growth of 5.01%, although this was significantly lower than the 5.72% rate achieved in the previous quarter. GDP for full-year 2022 grew by 5.31%, at the bottom of the predicted range of growth. Compared to the previous quart...

Treat recovery data with caution
CHINA · Report · 28 Feb 2023

Because of Chinese New Year, the statistics bureau didn’t announce price, financial and PMI data until February. China switched from zero-COVID lockdown to almost no restrictions in December 2022, and by January 2023, normal life had nearly returned. The economy is generally improving, but cautio...

Politics: Stage set for final showdowns over electoral arbiter and rules for the 2024 elections
MEXICO · Report · 27 Feb 2023

With showdowns looming in the extended fight over which rules and what sort of arbiter will preside over the 2024 elections, all sides are stepping up their efforts. Opposition parties, civil society organizations and others are increasingly allied in challenging many of the laws passed recently ...

Economics: Revised presidential decree on glyphosate and GM corn imports sets the stage for new trade disputes and crop challenges
MEXICO · Report · 27 Feb 2023

The week before last, President López Obrador and five of his cabinet ministers published a decree for the purpose of gradually eliminating the use of the agrochemical herbicide glyphosate, prohibiting the planting of genetically modified (GM) corn and restricting its use in various productive pr...

Two months of the Lula government and other weekly topics
BRAZIL POLITICS · Report · 27 Feb 2023

The House and Senate resume negotiations for the determination of the presidents of the Permanent Committees of the two houses. The Tax Reform Working Group defines its work plan. On Tuesday, February 28, the mandates of two directors of the Central Bank end. On Thursday, March 2, the IBGE publis...

The Cost of Reducing Inflation
BRAZIL ECONOMICS · Report · 27 Feb 2023

It is becoming increasingly clear that the process of reducing inflation in the world will be long and costly, with risks of recession in the United States and Brazil. In the USA, the latest data indicate that the 12-month rate of the Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index (PCE) has starte...

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