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Vai alla Scheda Paese »There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.
— John Fitzgerald Kennedy
There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.
— John Fitzgerald Kennedy
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Argentine President Alberto Fernández believes the International Monetary Fund should grant the country more “flexible” terms and warned that increasing inflation could lead his government to again hike export taxes or re-establish quotas, according to an interview on Sunday, February 7th, in the newspaper Página/12. ...
Despite risks from the travel ban, a delay in vaccine distribution and new tensions in US-China trade, the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) and e-commerce are expected to continue spurring industrial property growth, in part thanks to stimulus plans and government investment in infrastructure and transport projects.
American business schools make up half the top 100 as student demand holds up in the pandemic
BY ZAKA KHALIQ, Lagos The federal government has advocated for the full implementation of the ECOWAS Brown Card Insurance Scheme to guarantee prompt compensation to victims of road accident within the ECOWAS member states. The honourable minister of finance, budget and national planning, Zainab Ahmed, while speaking at the inauguration ...
By Jonathan Nda- Isaiah President Muhammadu Buhari has welcomed the pronouncement of the United States Trade Representative signifying withdrawal of the country’s objection to the emergence of Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as Director General of World Trade Organisation, WTO. “We certainly welcome the decision of the new US administration to remove ...
By Jonathan Nda- Isaiah President Muhammadu Buhari has welcomed pronouncement of the Office of the United States Trade Representative, signifying withdrawal of the country’s objection to the emergence of Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as Director General of World Trade Organization, WTO. “We certainly welcome the decision of the new U.S administration ...
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The central province of Córdoba, Argentina's second technology hub behind Buenos Aires, appears to have had enough of waiting for the national government to act on crypto tax – and has instead moved to introduce a local tax on the crypto activities of its residents. ...
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The High Representative for Foreign Policy of the European Union (EU), Josep Borrell, urged US President Biden to reverse the decision, taken by his predecessor Donald Trump just before his term ended, to include Cuba in its list of countries supporting terrorism. 'We very much ...
United States President Joe Biden yesterday promised increased partnership with Africa and said he hoped to attend the next African Union summit, a continent largely ignored by his predecessor. In a video message to this weekend’s African Union summit, being held virtually due to COVID-19, the new US leader promised ...
The Kano State government says it has arrested 500 beggars for allegedly violating the law that bans street begging in the state. The state commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, Dr Zahra’u Muhammad-Umar, made the disclosure while repatriating the beggars to their states in Kano yesterday. Muhammad-Umar said that ...
GENEVA: US President Joe Biden's administration on Friday offered its "strong support" to Nigeria's Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to lead the World Trade Organization (WTO), clearing a path for her to become the body's first female and first African leader.
The U.S. deficit was down 19.9% from 2019, when Japan was the third-biggest deficit generator for Washington.
O otimismo nos mercados doméstico e externo prevaleceu nesta sexta-feira (5). O dólar voltou a ficar abaixo de R$ 5,40, e a bolsa de valores superou os 120 mil pontos. O dólar comercial encerrou o dia vendido a R$ 5,384, com recuo de R$ 0,066 (-1,2%). A cotação chegou a superar R$ 5,45 ...
Segundo a Abrapa, embarques no mês somaram 273,9 mil toneladas As exportações brasileiras de algodão somaram 273,9 mil toneladas em janeiro, queda de 11,3% em relação ao mesmo mês do ano passado. A receita, de US$ 425 milhões, caiu 12,4% na mesma base de comparação. O preço médio subiu 1,3%, ...
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Brazilian sugar and ethanol producer Jalles Machado SA priced its initial public offering in Sao Paulo at R$8.30 per share, well below its target range of R$10.35 to R$12.95, according to data released by Brazil’s securities regulator on Thursday. The IPO raised R$741.5 million (US$137 ...
O presidente Jair Bolsonaro disse hoje (5) que deve enviar ao Congresso um projeto de lei complementar para fixar a cobrança de Imposto sobre Circulação de Mercadorias e Serviços (ICMS), que é estadual, sobre o valor do combustível aos consumidores. De acordo com ele, outra proposta é que o ICMS ...
Alta nos preços de commodities no mercado global e comentários do governo sobre combustíveis influenciam nos negócios O Ibovespa retomou a trajetória de alta nesta sexta-feira, com bom desempenho das ações da Petrobras e da Vale. Além da alta nos preços de commodities no mercado global, os ...
Ao descartar a ideia de reduzir o tamanho de seu pacote de estímulos, presidente dos EUA disse ter aprendido com as lições ensinadas pela crise financeira de 2008-2009 O presidente dos Estados Unidos, Joe Biden, afirmou nesta sexta-feira que o mais recente relatório divulgado pelo Departamento de ...
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Cuba’s imports from China tumbled to US$483 million last year versus US$791 million in 2019, according to data from the Chinese Customs Office, extending a steep five-year decline as the island’s economy reels from U.S. sanctions and the coronavirus pandemic. Cuba is dependent on imports ...
In this feature, CHIMA AKWAJA, examines the role emergency communications centres being built across the states and the national emergency helpline plays to secure lives and property especially during the Covid-19 pandemic and the ongoing way on insurgency and banditry in some parts of the country. Experts in the ...
BY ABIODUN SIVOWAKU, Lagos Following MTN’s donation of US$25 million towards the African Union’s COVID-19 vaccination programme, the ICT company has said that Nigeria will receive a significant volume of the seven million doses of the vaccine to be distributed to health workers across the continent. The Africa Centres for ...