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USA
The middle-income trap has little evidence going for it
EVERY FEW YEARS Foreign Affairs, a magazine about international relations, provokes a fracas in a neighbouring discipline, international economics. In 1994 it published an essay by Paul Krugman, “The Myth of Asia’s Miracle”, which re-examined the source of the tigers’ success. Then, after the Asian financial crisis, it came up ...
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Turchia
Emerging markets are up and running
IN 1875 THE Ottoman Empire defaulted on half its foreign debt, a victim of the “first major debt crisis of the developing world”, according to one account of the mess. Its creditors, led by the Imperial Ottoman Bank, forced the empire’s grand vizier to accept a humiliating solution. Rather than ...
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Senegal
Réception des toilettes de deux écoles à Dakar, vendredi
Dakar, 5 oct (APS) - Le ministre de la Jeunesse, de la Construction citoyenne et de la Promotion du volontariat, Pape Gorgui Ndong, va présider une cérémonie de réception des clés des toilettes des écoles Sacoura-Badiane et Mour-Diop, vendredi, à 10 heures, selon un communiqué reçu à l'APS. - Agenda
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Spagna
¿Sobreviviría Cataluña con su economía como un Estado independiente de España?
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Francia Senegal
Les avocats de Lamine Diack insistent sur la nécessité d'éviter les amalgames
Dakar, 5 oct (APS) - Les avocats de l'ex-président de la Fédération internationale d'athlétisme (IAAF), Lamine Diack, disent remercier l'opinion publique sénégalaise pour son soutien à leur client mis en examen en France, soulignant toutefois la nécessité d'"éviter tout amalgame entre sa situation et celle des autres mis en cause ...
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USA
US trade commission finds Korean washers hurt domestic industry
The US International Trade Commission determined Thursday that two South Korean companies' washing machines manufactured
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Nigeria
9mobile to boost SMEs
Anna Okon A telecommunications company, 9mobile, is set to empower the Small and Medium-scale Enterprises in and around Lagos at its quarterly business networking and empowerment platform, Market Access. Market Access organised in partnership with the Enterprise Development Centre of the Pan Atlantic University is a platform for the SME ...
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Nigeria
Senate sets conditions for FG on 2018 budget
Leke Baiyewu, Abuja The Senate on Thursday considered and adopted the report of its Joint Committee on Appropriation and Finance over its meeting on Tuesday with the Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun; and Minister of Budget and National Planning, Senator Udo Udoma, on the implementation of the 2017 Appropriation ...
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Nigeria
CBN to blacklist exporters for non-repatriation of proceeds
Oyetunji Abioye The Central Bank of Nigeria on Thursday expressed concerns over the non-remittance of export proceeds by exporting firms. As a result, the apex bank said it was set to blacklist a number of exporters who had failed to repatriate the proceeds of their exports. The Director, Banking Supervision, ...
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Nigeria
Nigeria’s electricity law near perfect – Fashola
Okechukwu Nnodim, Abuja The Electric Power Sector Reform Act that was passed in 2005, which serves as Nigeria’s electricity reform law, is one of the best in the world and is almost perfect, the Minister of Power, Works, and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has said. He stated this at the 2017 ...