Frontier Markets Weekly, January 28th 2023
By Dan Keeler, Ken Stibler, and Noah Berman Welcome to the latest edition of Frontier Markets News. In the Europe section of...
Month: January 2023
Emerging Europe Weekly, 2023.1.28
By FMN Team Welcome to the first edition of Emerging Europe Weekly, an extended roundup of key news and insight...
US tech outsourcing saps talent from Latin America’s startups
Startups across Latin America are struggling to attract and retain tech workers as US outsourcing creates a shortage, Rest of the World’s...
Fall in Hungary’s overheated property market exposes finance-sector vulnerabilities
Hungary’s housing market, the fastest growing in the EU for the past decade, is finally seeing lower prices, Bloomberg reports. Recent...
Azerbaijan tests Russia’s resolve in the Caucasus, highlighting Moscow’s waning influence on its periphery
Azerbaijan is blocking Armenian access to its contested Nagorno-Karabakh enclave and testing Russia’s resolve in the process, reports the NYTimes’ Anton Troianovski....
Enhanced dollar controls slam the battered Iraqi economy
Iraq’s economy is reeling after stricter controls on wire transfers targeting Iran led to a sharp rise in import costs and rapid depreciation in...
Corruption crackdown claims Vietnam’s president
Vietnam’s Communist Party accepted the resignation of President Nguyen Xuan Phuc on Wednesday, the latest casualty of Hanoi’s clampdown on...
Tokayev dissolves parliament in Kazakhstan
Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart announced that he had dissolved one of the houses of parliament this week, with new elections to be held in...
Sri Lankan debt plan gains Indian support
India told the IMF it would support Sri Lanka’s restructuring plan, bringing the embattled island economy’s debt saga one step closer to resolution....
Uganda abandons Belt and Road project, turns towards Turkey
Uganda canceled a deal this week that would have built a railway from its capital, Kampala, to the Kenyan port city of Malaba....
Janet Yellen visits Africa with insecurity on the agenda
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen kicked off a 10-day visit to Africa this week with a speech in Senegal that called out Russia for the...
Frontier Markets Weekly, January 21st 2023
By Dan Keeler, Ken Stibler, and Noah Berman Hey frontier friends, if you haven't already listened in, check out this...
