Short-term political risk: multiple downgrades as emerging markets see liquidity squeeze amid covid-19 crisis
The current economic crisis provoked by the covid-19 pandemic combined with the commodity price shock is having a pronounced impact on the short-term ...
COUNTRIES :
Albania
Aruba
Barbados
Belice
Chile
Colombia
Ecuador
Egipto
Fiyi
Georgia
Granada
Guyana
Honduras
Jamaica
Jordania
Kazajistán
Kenia
Kirguistán
Malasia
Maldivas
Myanmar
Nauru
Macedonia
Omán
Palau
San Vicente y las granadinas
Samoa Americana
Samoa Occidental
Senegal
Sri Lanka
Tonga
Uganda
Vanuatu
Brasil
Santa Lucía
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Latin America: Region is likely to face a harsh recession, liquidity constraints and deteriorating public finances
Region quickly enacted harsh containment measures
COUNTRIES :
Argentina
Bolivia
Brasil
Chile
Colombia
Costa Rica
Cuba
Ecuador
Guatemala
Honduras
México
Nicaragua
Panamá
Paraguay
Perú
República Dominicana
Uruguay
Venezuela
El Salvador
Surinam
Belice
Anguila
Antigua y Barbuda
Aruba
Bahamas
Barbados
Bermudas
Antillas Neerlandesas
Islas Caimán
Curasao (NL)
Dominica
Granada
Guadalupe
Haiti
Jamaica
Martinica
Montserrat
Puerto Rico
San Martín (NL)
San Martín (FR)
San Cristóbal y Nieves
Santa Lucía
San Vicente y las granadinas
Trinidad y Tobago
Islas Turcas y Caicos
Islas Vírgenes (americanas)
Islas Vírgenes (británicas)
Islas Malvinas
Guayana Francesa
Guyana
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Brazil and Argentina: US trade tariffs on the doorstep
Steel and aluminium tariffs back on the table
COUNTRIES :
Argentina
Brasil
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Historic EU-Mercosur agreement to have large impact on both trading blocs…if ratified
Event
On 28 June, the EU and Mercosur (an economic trade bloc comprising Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay) announced that they reached a huge ...
COUNTRIES :
Brasil
Argentina
Uruguay
Paraguay
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Brazil: A new president opens a new era, for the better?
Event
Jair Bolsonaro, a far-right lawmaker and former army captain, member of the Social Liberal Party (PSL), is the new President of Brazil. With ...
COUNTRY:
Brasil
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Brazil: Wildly unpredictable election fuels exchange rate volatility
Event
Rising global interest rates and risk aversion have put many emerging market currencies to the test in the last months. In Latin America, ...
COUNTRY:
Brasil
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Brazil: Resignation of minister can prove an opportunity to push through the vital pension reform
Event
Bruno Araújo resigned from his post as minister of Cities. Araújo was one of four ministers representing the centrist PSDB (Brazilian Social ...
COUNTRY:
Brasil
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Brazil: Meat corruption investigation can undermine government's reform prospects
Event
This month, Brazil surprised the world with a new corruption probe. This time it concerns sales of tainted meat. The ‘Weak Flesh’ ...
COUNTRY:
Brasil
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Brazil: Local elections boost Temer’s coalition, but way forward will remain difficult
Event
In October, Brazil’s 5,570 municipalities held elections to appoint mayors and city councils. Yet given that the local ballot constituted the ...
COUNTRY:
Brasil
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Brazil: Boom to bust
With the unwinding of the commodity boom, the Brazilian economy started to slow down in 2011. More recently, a confidence crisis exposed the exhaustion of the consumption-led domestic growth model.
COUNTRY:
Brasil
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Brazil: President Dilma Rousseff faces uphill battle to avert impeachment
Event
On 29 March, Brazil’s largest political party – the Democratic Movement Party (PMDB), which controls 68 of the 513 seats in the Chamber of ...
COUNTRY:
Brasil
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Brazilian confidence crisis takes its toll
Until a few years ago, international as well as domestic conditions contributed to Brazil’s success story. Terms of trade evolved favourably as ...
COUNTRIES :
Brasil
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