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INDIA/PAKISTAN: War risks increase after Mumbai attack
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2008-12-01 |
Jaiswal said yesterday. There is a risk that India will undertake...emerging from the interrogation of a gunman -- reportedly a ##-year-old Pakistani national...The attack came less than a week after Pakistani President Asif...Times, he looked forward to a time when all issues currently |
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UNITED KINGDOM: Brown bets on optimistic fiscal plan
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2008-12-01 |
necessary to combat recession, in a newspaper interview yesterday. The UK...will be re-elected for a further term of office. Prime...the banking system are serving as a blue print for similar schemes...#.#% this year and a mere #.#% in #### |
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UNITED STATES: TARP has bought time, but risks remain
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2008-12-01 |
to be largely allocated through a joint Federal Reserve-Treasury scheme...linked to consumer credit (such as auto and credit card debt...and credit card debt) -- known as the Term Asset-Backed Securities...policymakers, it may not be a long-term fix for the |
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NORTH KOREA/SOUTH KOREA: Restrictions sour relations
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2008-12-01 |
having earlier set December # as a deadline for South Korea#;s...Korea has only permitted services as far as the Kaesong Industrial Complex (KIC...DMZ). Trains often run empty, as most of the ## South...being suspended. In less than a year, over ###,### South |
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AFRICA: Global crisis hits Ecobank share offering
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2008-12-01 |
African exchanges. It was expected -- as with the ### million dollar...scale anticipated by Ecobank executives as a result of the tightening of...from other overseas investors, such as sovereign wealth funds or existing...Ecobank#;s founders, equipped with a two-year technical assistance programme |
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INTERNATIONAL: Infrastructure investment falls away
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2008-12-01 |
trends in global infrastructure development. A key issue is whether some...year Global FDI flows reached a record high (the previous high...## trillion dollars in ####, a ##% annual rise in dollar...Russia. Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) accounted for about ##% of |
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ARMENIA: Plan aims to fortify against external crisis
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2008-12-01 |
months of ####.Foreign investment A fall in foreign investment is...home are expected to fall, as a consequence of the economic downturn...factor may prove especially damaging, as these remittances, which are estimated...at some # billion dollars a year, are equivalent to one |
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LATIN AMERICA: Media climate coverage is increasing
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2008-12-01 |
it is still not at a level commensurate with the scale...should help raise coverage. Only a few region-specific studies have...intense weather - February ##, ####). A recent Andean Community of Nations...hurricane intensity probably will be a major problem for the Caribbean |
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INDIA: Mumbai attacks raise wider stability fears
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2008-11-28 |
hotels in Mumbai today, after a coordinated series of terrorist attacks...of international and domestic politics as well as the impending general election. Mumbai...land and sea, it possesses a population of ## million who...India, but of the earth. A recent survey indicated that barely |
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PROSPECTS 2009: US recession will approach 1982 slump
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2008-11-28 |
US economy is currently in a severe recession -- a contraction that is likely to...in recent months, pointing to a deep recession. The National Bureau...Committee is likely to date a business cycle peak in December...that the recession is already a year old. (The Committee is |
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PROSPECTS 2009: Aso faces economy and election battles
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2008-11-28 |
whether Taro Aso can survive as prime minister next year. Economic...Taro Aso may not survive as prime minister and his LDP...minister and his LDP faces a major challenge at the polls...not having held an election as well as for making occasional ill-considered |
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WESTERN EUROPE: Crisis prompts Nordic Europe rethink
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2008-11-28 |
rejected the Maastricht Treaty in a referendum in ####, and only...leave the European Community, after a referendum held in ####.Finland...area, after Swedish voters rejected a proposal to join in ####...never reached the stage of a public vote. However, the global |
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PROSPECTS 2009: Venezuela may face turning point
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2008-11-28 |
The government faces new challenges as the opposition re-enters the...Chavez came to power, saw a record level of participation at...to deliver on commitments such as improved housing and employment opportunities...require that the administration forge a modus vivendi with its opponents |
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AZERBAIJAN: Non-formal barriers cramp private sector
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2008-11-28 |
and gas bonanza is temporary, as output is expected to peak...sector is needed to provide a sustainable basis for growth and...state intervention continue to define a challenging environment.The progress that...sectors; and the existence of a large, cash-based informal economy |
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UGANDA: Military pressure limits LRA options
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2008-11-28 |
Kony is due to sign a peace agreement tomorrow. On two...set up to monitor the -- as yet unsigned -- Final Peace Agreement...unsigned -- Final Peace Agreement (FPA). A few days later, he declared...Kampala. In early November, following a meeting of all the parties |
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COLOMBIA/US: Army scandal imperils military aid
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2008-11-28 |
and possibly will lead to a reduction in military assistance to...men disappeared, and later appeared as fallen guerrillas in battlegrounds hundreds...of the army in over a decade. The Uribe administration has...chief General Mario Montoya resigned a few days after the scandal |
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MIDDLE EAST: Arab economies to grow despite setbacks
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2008-11-27 |
make up the difference from a regional standpoint -- although particular countries...#.#% in developing countries as a whole. GCC investors are now...for ####-####, down from a projected ### billion dollars before...financed, #-## billion dollars a month of investment will take |
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PROSPECTS 2009: China's slowdown may hurt Wen
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2008-11-27 |
be raised within the leadership as to why growth is slowing...Jiabao, who has presided over a tough monetary policy to rein...rein in inflation and contain a real estate bubble well into...in the build up to a global recession.Both Vice Premier |
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PROSPECTS 2009: International disunity hurts Balkans
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2008-11-27 |
unsettled status continues to present a challenge to regional stability. The...independence, will continue to present a challenge to security in the...whole strategy of #;supervised independence#;, as foreseen by Ahtisaari: In key...and will be explicitly neutral as to Kosovo#;s status, undercuts |
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