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Brasile
Education, Health, and Economics Account for 70 Percent of Federal Staff Costs
By Xiu Ying RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – According to Government data, the Ministries of Education, Health and Economy account for 81.4 percent of the entire workforce of the Esplanade of Ministries. Of the 622,534 active servants, 507,106 are in these portfolios. The Ministry of Education (MEC) employs 300,833 servants, ...
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Nigeria
Letter To Emefiele Over Health Of Nigerian Banks
LEADERSHIP : I congratulate you on your re-appointment as Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) for a second term. This appointment, I believe, is divinely orchestrated to ensure consistency in economic policies and, to afford you the opportunity to improve on the economy, particularly, the misery index, among ...
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Nigeria
‘Enabling Environment ‘ll Spur Investment Inflow Into Nigeria’
LEADERSHIP : The former commissioner for commerce and industry in Ogun State, Bimbo Ashiru, has called on the government to ensure an enabling environment which would help businesses to grow so as to attract more foreign direct investments in the country. Speaking at the opening ceremony of the Food and ...
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Nigeria
Dangote Cement To Open Export Facilities
LEADERSHIP : As part of moves to boost foreign exchange and capacity production, Dangote Cement will open export facilities in Lagos and Port Harcourt this year. The company stated that the opening of export facilities would attract about $700 million foreign exchange into the Nigerian economy. Also, Dangote Cement said ...
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Cina Giappone
Africa: New U.S. Strategy to Curb China's Growing Influence?
[Nation] As the G20 Summit gets underway in Osaka Japan on June 28-29, 2019, Chinese President Xi Jinping and his American counterpart, Donald Trump, are scheduled to meet on the sidelines of the summit. High on the agenda is the resumption of negotiations on tariffs to end the recent tit-for-tat ...
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Cina
Carrefour moves to quit China with deal to offload business
Europe’s largest retailer agrees €1.4bn deal to sell 80% of arm to Suning.com
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Cina
Carrefour agrees to divest its China business to Suning
French supermarket giant Carrefour said on June 23 that it had agreed to sell 80 percent of its China business to leading Chinese retailer Suning.
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Spagna
España mantiene altos niveles de subempleo tras la crisis, según un estudio
Madrid, 23 jun (EFE).- España es uno de los países de Europa con mayor número de personas que afirman trabajar menos horas de las que querrían, lo que se conoce como subempleos o empleos vulnerables, según el último estudio sobre el mercado de trabajo del Observatorio Social de La Caixa.
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Spagna
Visa pide regular para que los comercios acepten pagos alternativos al efectivo en compras desde 30 euros
MADRID, 23 (SERVIMEDIA)
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Cina USA Indonesia Singapore Vietnam Filippine
Asean leaders emphasise economic strength in face of US-China tensions
Southeast Asian leaders agreed on Sunday to work together on regional economy and security to strengthen their positions amid growing US-China tensions, as they wrapped up the summit.