While TV and Radio Marti have received praised for broadcasting news to people in Cuba, where the government jams foreign signals, TV Marti continues to face internal and external criticism.
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However, most global trade, Asia's external debt, foreign-exchange liquidity and financial assets are still denominated in dollars.
The improvement in ratings is underpinned by emerging-market governments' strong external balance-sheets (record levels of foreign-exchange reserves and falling external debt ratios).
As for the corporate sector, the Central Bank of Russia has said that the deleveraging of 2009-10 has made Russia companies more resilient to external shocks that trigger higher foreign borrowing costs.