This is the second in a series of thought pieces that will look at the role of development finance institutions post-Covid-19. In practice, however, the IMF has so far stuck to its guns and refused to extend funding for countries with an unsustainabl...

Ukraine looks to have become the latest country seeking to tap funds from the IMF’s emergency financing facilities to help countries deal with the coronavirus pandemic that was announced earlier this month, according to local media yesterday citing t...

The political situation in Venezuela seemed to take another twistover the weekendafter Juan Guaido's re-election as leader of the National Assembly – which confers on him the internationally recognised position of interim president – was blocked by f...

The small Emerging and Frontier markets of Latin America remain among our less favoured ones (we much preferAsia). The context for protests is economic malaise from low commodity prices, the loss of trust in government institutions (eg the Odebrecht...

Venezuela's opposition plans a protest march tomorrow. The opposition's call to take to the streets has been supported byLeopoldo Lopez, mentor to interim leader Juan Guaido. A number of scenarios are still possible,as we have set out before. We thin...

President Nicolás Maduro yesterday called on the opposition to accept his proposal for early parliamentary elections, a challenge to both sides to demonstrate their level of popular support, as he seeks a way out of the country’s worsening political...