Digital currencies hold much promise for central banks

Central banks worldwide have been researching how digital currencies could complement or replace traditional currencies

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COVID-19 may give Lebanon’s premier a short-term boost

An effective lockdown has set back protests but made economic challenges even more intractable

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Further pressure on the lira could add to economic difficulties, particularly managing twin public and external deficits

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A new government had articulated plans to turn the economy around just as the coronavirus pandemic struck

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Social unrest was already expected to see GDP shrink in 2020; COVID-19 all but guarantees a substantial decline

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Developing countries have less scope than developed markets to adjust economic and social policies to cope with COVID-19

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The COVID-19 global pandemic will pose multiple domestic and external shocks for Latin American economies

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The slow reactions of Mexico’s government are compounding its vulnerability to COVID-19

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A ratings downgrade comes amid a nationwide lockdown to combat the COVID-19 crisis

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So far the country has few recorded virus cases, but its weak and rigid economic structure is exposed

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