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Argentina databank Jul 2
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Brazil Economics databank Jun 16
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Central America databank Jun 27
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Chile databank May 27
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China databank Mar 21
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Colombia databank Jun 5
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Dominican Republic databank Jun 18
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Mexico databank Jul 1
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Panama databank May 13
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Peru databank Jun 27
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Philippines databank Jun 6
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Poland databank Apr 29
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COUNTRY INSIGHTS
Inflation rises further, but MPC likely to stay put
TURKEY · Report · 03 Mar 2021 · 1 response
Consumer prices rose by 0.9%, m/m, in February, higher than the market consensus of 0.7% with the 12-month CPI inflation thus increasing further to 15.6% in February, from 15% in January. Domestic-PPI inflation was 1.2%, m/m, leading to a further sharp jump in the 12-month rate to 27.1%, from 26....
Alberto Fernandez's Kirchnerist speech during the opening session of Congress
ARGENTINA · Report · 03 Mar 2021
President Alberto Fernandez (AF) gave a long yet carefully structured speech during the Congress’s opening session. He reviewed his government’s achievements, defended it from what he called “malicious criticism that responds to unspeakable interests of concentrated economic powers”, and made sev...
A Second Denial to Debate the Bill in Favor of Dollarization
ECUADOR · In Brief · 02 Mar 2021
By the end of last year considering general comments from legislators on the subject bill, we had hopes for its approval. However, so far, the Administrative Council from the Assembly has denied twice the possibility to debate the bill in the plenary session. Albeit Ministry of Finance Mauricio P...
Give me some doughnuts
CHILE · Report · 02 Mar 2021 · 1 response
The Monthly Index of Economic activity (IMACEC) in December surprised strongly on the upside, and provided a slight upward bias to our 2021 growth projection of 6.5%. The monthly variation of the seasonally-adjusted series excluding mining was 4.4%, the best result since September 2020. According...
A few words on GDP, EURHUF, vaccination and central bank policy
HUNGARY · In Brief · 02 Mar 2021
KSH (the Statistical Office) has just revised its GDP figures for Q4 2020. The revision has taken a distinct upwardly direction: in real terms and on sda basis, GDP rose by 1.4% qoq and fell by 4.1% yoy in Q4, as opposed to the preliminary +1.1% yoy, -4.3% yoy figures.Now that the economy seems t...
Erdogan forced into premature normalization
TURKEY · In Brief · 02 Mar 2021
As you read these lines, President Erdogan will have unveiled another pretentious “Human Rights Reform Plan”, which I don’t intend to cover, because if the president truly wanted human rights improvements, he wouldn’t order dissidents and journalists to be kept behind bars. Instead, I want to bri...
Slovakia will receive 2 million doses of Sputnik V
RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS · In Brief · 02 Mar 2021
On March 2 the first batch of the Russian coronavirus vaccine arrived in Slovakia. Moscow is delighted with this commerical and soft power success. Slovakia is an EU country. The EU's vaccine rollout has been notoriously slow.Austria and the Czech Republic are in discussions about buying Sputnik ...
The dangers of deafness to suffering
COLOMBIA · Report · 01 Mar 2021 · 2 responses
Last year’s 6.8% contraction represents, not surprisingly, the worst economic downturn in Colombian history – and only the fourth year in more than a century in which the economy has posted negative results. Though most sectors, especially manufacturing and commerce, followed overall GDP, agricul...
Synthesis of the Brazilian economy
BRAZIL ECONOMICS · Report · 01 Mar 2021
While Brazil is experiencing the worst moments of the pandemic, without any outlook for improvement in the short run, the costs of the alliance of Bolsonaro with the Centrão are starting to appear, without any sign of the claimed benefits to the country. On the contrary, the vestiges of the liber...
Politics: Governability at risk, Part I
MEXICO · Report · 01 Mar 2021
No one ever doubted that this year’s midterm elections would greatly magnify political tensions, especially as the contest begins to hit its stride, with competing camps' getting down to the work of defining one another and their respective candidates with the usual mix of negative and sometimes ...
Main questions about the Emergency PEC and other weekly topics
BRAZIL POLITICS · Report · 01 Mar 2021
In the Senate, the highlight is the vote on the Emergency PEC. In the House, we expect the permanent committees to be installed. Regarding the economy, we highlight the release of the 2020 GDP results on Wednesday. This week's Talking Points: * The Emergency PEC: main questions. ...
Eonomics: February data point to future challenges
MEXICO · Report · 01 Mar 2021
Even as some branches of industrial and service activity continued to pare their losses from the lows of 2020 and the trend remains toward a reopening of activity, GDP contracted -4.3% in the fourth quarter (and -8.2% for 2020), with health the only service sector to show growth. We expect a simi...
Growth 2020: A Pyrrhic Victory of sorts
TURKEY · Report · 01 Mar 2021
The Turkish economy grew by a somewhat lower than expected 5.9%, y/y, and 1.7%, q/q, in the final quarter of 2020. For the year as a whole, GDP hence grew by 1.8% in 2020, making Turkey one of the two G-20 countries, next to China, that registered positive growth in a devastating, pandemic-hit ye...
Hi-tech services continue to support growth
ISRAEL · Report · 01 Mar 2021
* Hi-tech service exports expanded rapidly in Q420, supporting shekel appreciation. * Rapid growth of employment in the hi-tech sector (high income) is expected to support higher rental prices. * The economy is opening up rapidly, supporting economic growth and lower unemployment. * ...
Improvement in the economy
INDONESIA · Report · 01 Mar 2021
Indonesia has already seen a certain measure of improvement in the economy in the past quarters. While the country experienced a painful situation due to the restrained mobility from the pandemic, which led to a semi-lockdown in Q2 2020, Indonesia has continued to improve, slashing the negative g...