'Middle-class' consumption in Africa could disappoint

Headline projections of the continent's consumer growth potential tend to overestimate the business case

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Terms of Greece's third bailout will depress economy

Capital controls and uncertainty have already accelerated economic contraction

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Months before presidential polls, the deepening recession may create doubts about administration's economic competence

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The evolving system of institutional economic management will see a test case in tax avoidance responses

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The country's economic geography is shifting and its middle class growing, but the consequences are not all benign

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Scarcity of dollars will remain a drag on growth, although pre-election spending may offer modest relief this year

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Rebalancing the economic model away from the external sector towards the demand side will not occur before 2016

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French firms have long dominated key sectors in West Africa's Francophone economies, but the climate is changing

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A crackdown on counterfeit goods has led to a standoff between China's government and one of its largest private firms

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Disaffected former government supporters on the centre-left are a more credible threat to Maduro than the right

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