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Bimonthly Economic Update Macroeconomic trends

24 Jan 2023

Since 14 December, the rial started to depreciate again, reaching the YER The stability observed in November was partially the result of the announcement of 1,200 per USD 1 mark on 24 December and slowly depreciating through the remainder upcoming support to the Central Bank of Yemen (CBY) in Aden, namely, a conversion of the month. [...] Among CBY-Sana’a’s proposals were: assigning an independent third party to oversee the use of the SDRs in financing imports and paying public salaries; using the SDRs to pay off 2021 2022 part of public debt to and alleviate the liquidity crisis in private banks; and suspending DFA IRG the conversion of the SDRs until the end of the conflict. [...] The IRG added that the prices of electricity and water will also gradually increase, al- though the specific amounts, as well as the timeline of the price increases (including for Despite the anticipated financial support, in the second half of December, the rial par- petrol and gas cylinders), remain unclear. [...] and requirements that might delay the arrival of the funds from the Saudi pledge, likely ELECTRICITY DEVELOPMENTS contributing to the depreciation of the rial. [...] The statement described the latest food price cuts as 700,000 the DFA attempting to unjustly put the burdens of the economic challenges the country was experiencing onto the traders.
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