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COUNTRY INSIGHTS
A gap between reported and true GDP?
INDIA · Report · 16 Feb 2018
There is a remarkable divergence between reported nominal GDP and a sensible nominal output proxy in the period after the CSO changed the methods for GDP measurement. This has interesting implications for how we think about fiscal economics.
China’s bad debt problem: Underestimated NPLs still a big threat to China’s banking system
CHINA ADVISORY · Report · 16 Feb 2018
There have been a number of external estimates of China’s bad loans. The most widely utilized number was provided by the IMF, which analyzed 2,871 companies to estimate what percentage was not generating enough cash to pay interest expense. It arrived at an estimate of 15.5% of total corporate lo...
Federal intervention in Rio de Janeiro
BRAZIL POLITICS · Report · 16 Feb 2018 · 1 response
Following reports of escalating violence in Rio de Janeiro, President Michel Temer has decided to decree federal intervention in the public security of the state. President Temer will sign the Intervention Decree in the Public Security of the State of Rio de Janeiro today, February 16, during a c...
Election bulletin: Huck exit benefits Alckmin
BRAZIL POLITICS · Report · 16 Feb 2018
TV Globo personality Luciano Huck (no party) has stated that he will not run for president, putting an end to increased speculation about a possible candidacy. Huck’s exit benefits Geraldo Alckmin (PSDB), as it reduces the likelihood that a new candidate without ties to traditional politics will ...
RRR cut
PHILIPPINES · In Brief · 16 Feb 2018
On the eve of the lunar new year, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas cut banks’ reserve requirement ratio from 20% to 19%, releasing about P90 billion into the financial system. The move was a surprising one coming on the heels of a higher than expected January inflation rate and at a time when mark...
Synthesis of the Brazilian economy
BRAZIL ECONOMICS · Report · 15 Feb 2018 · 1 response
The unanimous confirmation of Lula’s conviction by the TRF-4 court, with increase of his prison sentence, has made the probability of his appearance on the ballot in October remote. This development has focused attention on the center of the political spectrum, and negotiations are ongoing to for...
Q4 GDP growth above expectation, points to a (somewhat) weaker forint
HUNGARY · In Brief · 14 Feb 2018
GDP growth for Q4 2018 came out this morning at 1.3% qoq, 4.8% yoy on sda basis, the latter up from an upwardly revised 4.2% yoy in the previous quarter. This was clearly above expectation (market: 4.1% yoy, our forecast: 4.4% yoy), a great part of the positive surprise coming from the revision o...
Zuma's era ends in 24 hours!
SOUTH AFRICA · In Brief · 14 Feb 2018
At last, Zuma's missteps, tactics and strategies check-mated him. He has been put in a no-win binnary position:"resign before mid-night, or tomorrow at 14h00 the Parliament will remove you via a vote of no confidence supported by the combined ANC, EFF and all other opposition parties." To reach t...
Foreign exchange potpourri
VENEZUELA · Report · 13 Feb 2018
The government and the central bank returned to the forex scene with Exchange Agreement 39[1] after a six-month hiatus. The official explanation of the pause is that the sanctions imposed by the United States made fund transfers impossible. The changes make up a medley of advances and setbacks...
A Sirius year
PHILIPPINES · Forecast · 13 Feb 2018
Macroeconomic prospects look bright in the Year of the Dog with global growth returning to around 4% in 2018. Philippine GDP growth is expected to remain among the fastest, at 6.8% this year. Apart from rising world demand, domestic activity will gain from higher household spending and public c...
Colombian elections: Opinion versus machinery
COLOMBIA · Report · 13 Feb 2018
From 2019 onwards, every high school graduate would have free college education in public universities, at a yearly cost of 14 trillion COP, approximately 1.5% of GDP, to be financed by reducing other less important public investments, such as the 4G road system. By constitutional mandate, the ju...
Zuma Defiant, snubbing the ANC's NEC
SOUTH AFRICA · In Brief · 13 Feb 2018
Last night at the hour of midnight, the ANC President, Cyril Ramaphosa and the ANC Secretary General, Ace Magashule, were instructed by the ANC's NEC to deliver a personal message to President Zuma: resign or face the ANC NEC's recall. Zuma sent them back with a sharp and short message of defianc...
MNB-friendly inflation data out for January
HUNGARY · In Brief · 13 Feb 2018
CPI-inflation was 0.3% mom, 2.1% yoy in January, as released by the KSH this morning. The yoy rate was unchanged from December. Fuel prices rose by 1.5% mom, meaning that non-fuel inflation was 0.2% mom, the same as in January 2017, and 2.4% yoy, the latter also unchanged from December.Core infla...
Economics: Public finance bodes ill for 2018
MEXICO · Report · 12 Feb 2018
Last week's preliminary report on public finance for the end of 2017 may have shown a long awaited drop in spending, but that was mainly a statistical distortion resulting from the failures of past years to bring it under control. There is very little room to expand revenues, rein in spending and...
Politics: Did Corral outmaneuver the Peña gov't?
MEXICO · Report · 12 Feb 2018
A little over a week ago the curtain fell on the political stand-off that had pitted the Chihuahua state and the federal governments against one another in recent months. At a joint February 3 press conference, Chihuahua Governor Javier Corral and federal Minister of the Interior Alfonso Navarret...