Hints and tips:
...Kazimierz Smolinski, a Law and Justice MP and member of the KRS, lashed out at the ruling, which he said was intended to “bring about anarchy in Poland”....
...Rwanda has experienced such a shift in recent years. Agriculture made up three quarters of its employment in 2000; that fell to 52 per cent in 2011. A mining and construction boom emerged....
...Taylor reckons this has knocked about a quarter off GDP....
...Are EM currency falls this month a safer bet?...
...Ignoring everything else (a big proviso) and just looking at historical precedent, it would be bizarre if China did not slow down in a big way....
...Alper Dincer says he hopes to look at the causation using a wider pool of data. The education law has, however, caused a drop in fertility and a rise in family planning....
...Seems like a lot for such a country that currently has a small deficit. Why the widening debts? Over the long term, government expenditure ought to outpace receipts. Like the US, Russia is ageing....
...There are benefits to a currency peg: investors may prefer to trade in a market with lower transaction costs and less exchange rate uncertainty....
...Negative numbers in A indicate a stimulus, positive in B means stimulus....
...Being at the bottom of the league table is not a guarantee of progress: Indonesian kids do not score much better at the maths tests today than they did a decade ago....
...At the end of August, EM stock had a Cape ratio of under 17, compared to a long-term average of about 26....
...This is a partly a result of two factors: the input cost of oil makes up a significant share of the price of commodities like beef; and the scarcity of resources has led to substitution....
...Actually it’s a bit more complicated than that. Here’s a flow chart: A standard deviation rise in transport investment is found to boost local the growth of GDP per head by 0.16 percentage points....
...A difference in wages partly explains the trend. Before the financial crisis, public sector pay did not keep pace with that in the private sector....
...Ratings agency Moody’s predicts a stronger year in 2014....
...A 2010 study found that Brazil’s ranking had a 50 per cent chance of being about 15 notches higher or lower than its stated score....
...Thailand comes fourth on the consumer confidence index compiled by Nielsen, a research company....
...The shift in attitudes may simply be a result of a spluttering Chinese economy....
...A rate hike is forecast in Q1 2014. Bank Indonesia may put rates up further if a sell-off occurs. Both are a drag on growth.The election....
...Malaysia, the only country of the four with a primary budget deficit in 2007, launched a measly stimulus and swiftly pared it back....
...He knows a Mexican department store, for example, that bought the cheapest line of machinery purely to protect itself from extortion. Productivity suffers as a result....
...Normally, after a sudden shock such as a currency crisis, you would expect to see a fall-off in investment. Foreign investors pull capital out of the country as investors at home seek safe assets....
...And it may be a sign of higher demand and a newly buoyant Chinese economy (GDP figures for Q3 are out on Friday). So it may be good news – but not for Asia’s veggies....
...Yes – the country with a ballooning debt, political gridlock and a plentiful supply of the unemployed was chosen over China and the EU as a country with the “right ideas”....
...A more worrying trend is the rise in external borrowing....
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