Hong Kong's fiscal largesse will fail to buy support

Following popular protests, political priorities have prompted generous 'giveaways' in Hong Kong's 2015 budget

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Greece's debt capitulation has political risk

Syriza government is caught between filling gap in public finances and breaking election promises

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Achieving a peace deal with Myanmar's armed ethnic groups hangs in the balance

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After a decade of high oil prices and high public spending, Gulf states face a serious fiscal squeeze in the years ahead

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President Park Geun-hye's promises of welfare without tax rises look increasingly unrealistic

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The Petrobras scandal will add fuel to wider grievances that may increase as the year progresses

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Lower commodity prices will bring fiscal pressures that threaten to reverse modest progress on poverty

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Speculation over the position of the military will rise, though popular sentiment is focused above all on empty shelves

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Grexit is now more possible, if still unlikely, but post-election uncertainties will prove damaging whatever the result

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The government's 2015 budget revision could not stave off a deepened economic crisis

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