This brief focuses on the economic development in Vietnam as of October 2022. Vietnam’s economy registered a strong growth of 13.7 percent (y/y) in Q3-2022 and 8.9 percent (y/y), mostly reflecting a low...
The number of new Coronavirus (COVID-19) cases soared in Vietnam as people returned to work after the Lunar New Year. However, it has been affected by the surge in infections that started in the second...
The number of new Coronavirus (COVID-19) cases soared in Vietnam as people returned to work after the Lunar New Year. However, it has been affected by the surge in infections that started in the second...
What does the macroeconomy look like in the aftermath of tariff changes? This paper estimates impulse response functions from local projections using a panel of annual data that spans 151 countries over...
The October 2021 Vietnam Macro Monitoring discusses some of the following topics : Labor market conditions worsened substantially, reflecting the adverse economic impacts of the lengthy lockdown in major...
The October 2021 Vietnam Macro Monitoring discusses some of the following topics : Labor market conditions worsened substantially, reflecting the adverse economic impacts of the lengthy lockdown in major...
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This brief focuses on Myanmar’s trade in the first six months of FY 2019-2020, which was higher compared to the same period last year despite the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic. Land border trade with...
The global number of confirmed COVID-19 (Coronavirus) cases raced past the 5 million mark in late-May, after reaching 3 million a month prior. The global composite PMI sank further into contractionary...
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This paper focuses on the economic developments of Russian Federation for the Month of February 2020. Global activity indicators suggest that growth remained weak in 19Q4. Oil prices fell sharply in mid-January...
Economic conditions in Yemen remained relatively calm in February and internet connectivity was restored. Risks of monetary disruption continue, and indirect global crisis impacts through oil prices and...
Economic conditions in Yemen remained relatively calm in February and internet connectivity was restored. Risks of monetary disruption continue, and indirect global crisis impacts through oil prices and...
Turkey has moved rapidly from a current account that was relatively in balance up to the turn of the millennia, to sustaining relatively large current account deficits over the past 15 years. Using annual...
Indonesia’s economy grew 5.0 percent yoy in Q2 2019, and the current account deficit widened to 3.0 percent of GDP. The real sector recorded weakened outcomes and headline inflation was broadly unchanged...
This paper estimates the impact of market access liberalization in high-income countries on sub-Saharan African exports. The methodology exploits the large reduction in trade barriers that was induced...
Is it sustainable for São Tomé and Príncipe to have a large current account deficit and a fixed exchange rate peg? Sao Tomé and Príncipe (STP) pegs its currency, the dobra, to the euro and has both persistent...
This note examines the competitiveness of the export sector in São Tomé and Príncipe. It relies on the framework developed by Reis and Farole (2012) and examines the export competitiveness along four complementary...
Cambodia has recorded both rapid economic growth and macroeconomic stability in recent decades despite (or thanks to) high levels of dollarization. Previous studies on dollarization in Cambodia have largely...