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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
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March exports fall 4.88% y-o-y
Thailand's customs-cleared exports fell 4.88% in March, after unexpectedly increasing in February, due to falling shipments of electronics amid the Sino-US trade war, the commerce ministry said on Monday.
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[Non-memory Korea: 4] FPGA inventor Xilinx offers lesson to Korea in non-memory chip challenge
Xilinx, a San Jose-based system-on-chip business established 35 years ago, refuses to be known merely as an SoC company.
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Prioritising Building Insurance
LEADERSHIP: With the continuous building collapse across the country, and most recently, in Oyo and Lagos states, there is a need for owners of public buildings to insure their houses in order to avert collateral loss. ZAKA ABD-KHALIQ writes. Building collapse is a nightmare to the victims, especially, the occupants ...
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Climate Change: Amina Harps On Incentives For Private Sector
LEADERSHIP: The United Nations deputy secretary-general, Mrs Amina Mohammed has advocated the availability of funds through public budget and incentives for the private sector in order to combat climate change. She stated this while presenting the 2019 report on ‘Financing for Sustainable Development’ at the UN Secretariat building New York. ...
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Trade war with US delays China’s rules curbing data transfers
Multinational companies face pressure from Beijing to localise data
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How Akasha family lived in luxury with Sh20b estate
Akasha is said to have built a drug trade empire that controlled operations across Africa, America, Asia and Europe
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Biggest Creative Conference in Latin America Comes to Rio’s Cidade das Artes
By Jack Arnhold, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – This Tuesday, April 23rd, Rio’s Cidade das Artes in Barra da Tijuca will play host to four days of talks, conferences, demos and workshops as over 20,000 people are expected to attend the six-day Rio2C event. This year is the ...
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Turkey, US establishing trade working group: Minister
Turkish and U.S. trade ministries are establishing a working group to achieve bilateral trade volume target, the country's trade minister said.
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Would you live and die for me? Thoughts of Easter holidays and living forever in love
My wish for all of us is the resurrection and re-awakening of all that is good, beautiful, positive and tender in us.
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FTA and GSP use by exporters rises 3.4%
The use of free trade agreement (FTA) privileges and the Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) by Thai exporters amounted to US$11.57 billion in the first two months of 2019, up 3.4% from the same period last year.
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Houston’s unemployment rate falls, local economy adds 9,700 jobs
The Houston metro area added 9,700 jobs during March and the unemployment rate fell to 3.7 percent.
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$1.5BN Ghana PPP Deep Sea Port To Service ECOWAS Subregion
LEADERSHIP: As ECOWAS Parliament, the lawmaking arm of ECOWAS Commission pushes for a more sustainable and suitable Public Private Partnership, PPP model that will accelerate infrastructural and social development in West African sub region, the need for the strict application of the local content laws by Member states has been ...
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L’inquietudine delle donne per i negoziati di pace in Afghanistan
Gli Stati Uniti cercano un accordo con i taliban, i fondamentalisti islamici che negano i diritti alle donne e vogliono applicare la sharia come legge di governo. Leggi
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U.S. wins WTO ruling against China grain import quotas in Obama-era case
The United States won a World Trade Organization (WTO) ruling on Thursday against China’s use of tariff-rate quotas for rice, wheat and corn, which it ...
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Blackstone to shift from partnership to a corporation
Private equity group finds complex structure no longer worth the trouble following US tax cuts
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US Food and Drug Administration halts pelvic organ mesh sales
Kiwi advocate welcomes US ban on "unsafe" surgical mesh products, but says authorities should have acted sooner.
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Bondholders take on forex risk as hedging costs soar
Unhedged buying of US bonds opens foreign investors to losses if dollar falls
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Food & Beverage
Specialty food: qual è il consumatore tipo sul mercato Usa?
Nel nostro precedente approfondimento, abbiamo analizzato alcuni trend del settore “specialty food” sul mercato statunitense. Ciò che è balzato all’occhio è la forte crescita del comparto, capace di riscuotere un successo considerevole tra i consumatori americani (ben il 65% dichiara di acquistare prodotti di tale categoria). Oggi invece abbiamo deciso ...
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Brazil Loses its Share in Global Iron Ore Market
By Xiu Ying, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Within a scenario altered by the Brumadinho disaster, Brazil’s share in the global iron ore market is expected to decrease from 25.2 percent to 24.2 percent by 2019, a loss is estimated at US$ 1.6 billion. The dam tragedy led ...
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Dazi, l’Ue pubblica lista da 20 miliardi $ di prodotti Usa tassabili
La Commissione europea ha pubblicato una lista di beni prodotti negli Stati Uniti che potrebbero essere oggetto di dazi: si tratta di possibili “contromisure nel contesto della disputa” davanti al Wto sul caso delle sovvenzioni pubbliche a Boeing.... ...
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Al via a New York l’Italian Business and Investment Initiative
NEW YORK - Al via oggi la più recente edizione annuale della Italian Business and Investment Initiative organizzata dall'International Business Exchange. Un'edizione dedicata a un tema...