IMF bailout will roil Pakistan’s economic agenda

While another loan programme with the IMF looms, the government has outlined ambitious plans regarding welfare and jobs

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Differing demographic trends create chances and tests

Demographic trends will increasingly influence a country’s potential growth and the policy mix it requires

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The government has increased the minimum wage and also offered pay rises to civil servants, effective from July

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Morales looks on track to win a fourth term, in an election bid now tacitly endorsed by the head of the OAS

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Pre-election tax and benefit package erodes opposition lead but ruling Syriza cannot count on immediate return to power

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Mexican government efforts to court the diaspora may not bring the expected results

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Lower capital spending by manufacturers in the current economic slowdown may hold back industrial transformation

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Interest in measuring wellbeing as well as GDP is rising, and massive online choice surveys will grow worldwide

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Surging inflation could persist, requiring shifts in monetary and fiscal policy, as premier faces possible fraud charges

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The latest secular-stagnation research shows that governments can often expand fiscal policy without longer-term cost

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