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Lebanon's path to growth and stability

Jihad Azour, Lebanon's finance minister, was director of UN Development Programme and World Bank projects at the ministry before his cabinet appointment in July 2005. He talks to Kate Luxford about Lebanon's economic priorities

Kate Luxford, September 01, 2005

Bond roundtable participants

Benoît Cœuré took up his position as deputy chief executive of Agence France Trésor in June 2002. AFT is the debt management office of the French Republic, in charge of the funding and cash management of the debt portfolio of the French state. He has been with the treasury since 1995 and before joining AFT was chief economic adviser to the permanent head of the treasury.

September 01, 2005

BANKING

Kazakhstan: Government battles Dutch disease

High oil prices threaten Kazakhstan's economy with inflationary pressures.

September 01, 2005

Country risk Methodology

To obtain the overall country risk score, Euromoney assigns a weighting to nine categories. These are political risk (25% weighting), economic performance (25%), debt indicators (10%), debt in default or rescheduled (10%), credit ratings (10%), access to bank finance (5%), access to short-term finance (5%), access to capital markets (5%), forfaiting (5%).

September 01, 2005

CAPITAL MARKETS

Austria: Erste, the product factory

Erste Bank handed control of its branch network to local savings banks, and went to work on creating products they could sell.

Philip Moore, September 01, 2005

CAPITAL MARKETS

A new paradigm or a bubble set to burst?

Improved fundamentals have undoubtedly fuelled the emerging-market debt boom. But that's by no means the whole story. Excess liquidity might be forcing values unjustifiably high, and hedge fund and credit derivative strategies are vulnerable to an overdue yield-curve readjustment.

Theodore Kim, September 01, 2005

BANKING

Central bank governor of the year 2005: Japan

Toshihiko Fukui has overseen a successful policy U-turn in Japan's fight against deflation. Despite intense pressure, he has kept interest rates low until sustained inflation returns.

Chris Leahy, September 01, 2005

Foreign Exchange

Dirty politics, despairing country

Deep in political crisis, president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo is ill prepared to address the Philippines' critical financial problems. She seems to be running out of time. And so does her country.

Chris Leahy, September 01, 2005

Country Risk - Western Europe & North America

Historical country risk ratings

September 01, 2005

Ramos aims to reinvent the republic

Such is the dearth of credible leadership in the Philippines that Filipinos, if they could, would probably vote former president Ramos back in by a landslide. If the ex-general pulls off his plans for constitutional change, that might just happen.

Chris Leahy, September 01, 2005

BANKING

Funds aim to keep up with the flows

The investment market is becoming ever more competitive as structural change brings higher allocations to real estate, writes Laurence Neville

Laurence Neville, September 01, 2005

Iran's new guard rethinks investment strategy

As a new president takes office in Iran and deadlock hits talks with the European Union over Tehran's controversial nuclear programme, investors are pondering whether they should enter an economy that might soon be subject to sanctions.

September 01, 2005

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