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Economics and Politics, 140 days into the BJP Government
INDIA · Report · 10 Oct 2014

Executive Summary The defining issue in India’s business cycle downturn has been weakness in investment. This has been shaped by difficulties in implementing projects, and in the gloom of firms that felt future profitability was not going to be good. Reviving investment is a central priority of t...

Panama is Now Officially a “Tax Haven” from Colombia’s Perspective
PANAMA · Report · 10 Oct 2014

On October 7, the Santos Administration included Panama in the list of “fiscal paradises” (in the company of Barbados, UAE, Kuwait and Qatar) because the Martinelli administration and now the Varela Government have not signed the exchange of information agreement between Colombia and Panama. Colo...

Brazil Presidential Election
BRAZIL POLITICS · Report · 10 Oct 2014

Datafolha and Ibope: Aécio and Dilma Tied Aécio Neves (PSDB) and Dilma Rousseff (PT) are technically tied in the first Datafolha and Ibope polls.However, the PSDB candidate has the numerical advantage (2 percentage points). The race is close, but these early moments favor Aécio for the following ...

Weaker Growth Amid Regional Discord
PERU · Report · 10 Oct 2014

Executive SummaryThe great surprise of the October 5th regional and local elections was the landslide of Cajamarca regional president Gregorio Santos, in jail on corruption charges. The results revived fears that this key mining territory will have protracted problems developing its vast resource...

Strong Growth in Q2, But Slowdown Has Started Already
HUNGARY · Forecast · 09 Oct 2014

Executive Summary In late September, the Central Statistical Office announced a revision of national accounts and government sector data, as part of a transition to ESA2010, Eurostat’s new methodological standard. So far, only part of the new data has been presented, and as a result, a fully cons...

The MTP of Diminished Expectations
TURKEY · Report · 09 Oct 2014

The government announced the Medium-Term Program (MTP) for 2015-17 yesterday, in a timely manner. This is typically done before the submission of the budget to parliament, by the constitutionally-set deadline of October 17th. Despite its shortcomings, the MTP is a very useful document that lays o...

Energy Reform: An Analysis Of Its Fiscal Implications
MEXICO · Report · 08 Oct 2014

Executive SummaryA series of changes to articles 25, 27 and 28 of the Mexican Constitution regarding the energy sector that constitute part of the country’s broader energy reform appeared in the December 20, 2013 issue of the Diario Oficial de la Federación, the federal government’s daily gazette...

Productivity Lags, Wages More So
MEXICO · Report · 08 Oct 2014

Executive Summary Labor productivity per hour worked in Mexico has showed relatively lackluster growth over the past five years, having risen by only 10% since the first quarter of 2009 largely on the strength of a 12% increase in activity in the dominant service sector. Productivity in the indus...

Violent Threats to Governability
MEXICO · Report · 08 Oct 2014

Executive Summary In recent weeks a number of violent incidents, as well as the emergence of a student movement at the second most important public institution of higher learning in Mexico, have tested the government’s ability to guarantee the security of Mexican citizens and to avoid head-on con...

Will the Presidency Remain Effective?
INDONESIA · Report · 08 Oct 2014

Drama in Indonesian politics came again yesterday, October 7, 2014. In the election of the Speaker and the Deputies of the People’s Consultative Assembly, the political body that in the past elected the President and Vice President, Jokowi’s Camp lost. With that loss, Prabowo’s Camp has swept pra...

​Heads up: Violent Kobane protests could shake markets
TURKEY · In Brief · 07 Oct 2014

I had originally intended to update our audience with a long Market Brief on Turkey’s three conditions to deploy ground troops against ISIS. The violent protests in defense of Syrian Kurdish town Kobane that erupted across the nation last night completely changed the agenda. Turkey is waking up t...

Successfully Re-elected
RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS · Report · 07 Oct 2014

Local elections held in a majority of Russian federal entities demonstrate complete domination by the ruling elite. Since most opposition candidates were refused registration for the election, the incumbents faced no real competition and used the current “rally ‘round the flag” support for the go...

New SARB Governor Announced
SOUTH AFRICA · In Brief · 06 Oct 2014

Today, President Jacob Zuma appointed Mr. Lesetja Kganyago as the 10th South African Reserve Bank (SARB) Governor with effect from 09 November 2014. Incumbent Governor Marcus’ term ends on 08 November 2014. Mr. Kganyago has been working as one of the SARB’s Deputy Governors since 2011. In his add...

Presidential Results
BRAZIL POLITICS · Report · 06 Oct 2014

In the 1st round, Dilma Rousseff (PT) obtained 41.59% of valid votes.Aécio Neves (PSDB) came in second place with 33.55%.Marina Silva (PSB), in third place, obtained 21.32%. In terms of votes, Dilma obtained 43,267,668 votes.Aécio totaled 34,897,211 votes.Marina obtained 22,176,619. In the 1st ro...

Industrial Production: The Appearances are Misleading
BRAZIL ECONOMICS · Report · 06 Oct 2014

At first glance, it appears that by growing 0.7% in August, repeating the expansion measured in July, that industrial production has finally started to recover. However, appearances can be deceiving. First of all, the recent improvement is exclusively due to growth in the mineral extraction indus...

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