Consumer price inflation in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is forecast to remain elevated in 2021‑22 at an annual average of 14%, as international food and energy prices rise, in the wake of the pandemic. Inflation will be stoked by lingering supply-chain issues in the global economy and by a post-pandemic recovery in demand in Middle Eastern countries..
Domestic players have grown rapidly to compete with multinational companies (MNCs) in Asia-Pacific’s point-of-care (POC) diagnostics market. More domestic IVD firms are gaining ground in the region’s fastest-growing point-of-care (POC) diagnostics market segments such as cardiac and infectious diseases..
Japan will head to elections for the first time since the departure of Abe Shinzo, the country’s longest-serving prime minister who resigned in September 2020 owing to health reasons..
On September 26th Germany will go to the polls to elect a new government, leading to a new chancellor for the first time in 16 years. For a country where politics is usually a staid affair, this election is shaping up to be unpredictable: a contest that could result in half a dozen different coalition permutations..
China will maintain its zero‑Covid strategy in 2021‑22, meaning that mobility restrictions will be maintained to varying degrees, and this will weigh on in‑person consumption..
A new report by EIU examines how geopolitical risk and international tensions will change in the Middle East as long-term US interests in the region decline..
Emmanuel Macron was elected president on a platform of far-reaching reforms. He succeeded in making some improvements to the business environment, but his agenda has more recently been disrupted by protests and then the pandemic..
In the EIU’s latest global outlook video, Agathe Demarais, Robert Wood and Benedict Craven discuss debt dynamics in emerging countries, with a specific focus on Latin America and Africa..
In late September Canada held a snap federal poll. For most commentators, the announcement in August that an election would soon take place was a surprise: few expected that Liberal prime minister Justin Trudeau would take such a risky gamble and try to regain a parliamentary majority he did not need to govern. .
Semiconductor shortages are forcing several carmakers to cut production targets, including General Motors and Toyota..