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Nigeria
Work For Nigeria’s Unity, NYSC DG Tasks Corps Members
Director-general of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brigadier General Shuaibu Ibrahim, has advised prospective corps members to use the opportunities provided by the service year to uphold national unity and preach peaceful co-existence among Nigerians. He said the NYSC scheme was established for the promotion of national unity and ...
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Nigeria
How Govt Is Bridging Housing Deficit In Kaduna – Commissioner
The Commissioner of Housing and Urban Development Fausat Ibikunle has said that Kaduna State Government is using a combination of Public Private Partnership and direct intervention to bridge its housing deficit. The commissioner disclosed that the state government is building 228 housing units at Rigasa and 224 others at Unguwan ...
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Nigeria
#RespetaMiFuturo, campaña cívica contra la corrupción
“Estamos convencidos de que las principales amenazas a la reactivación social y económica son la corrupción y los conflictos de interés, que empañan las obras positivas y los buenos ejemplos”: José Ramón Icaza, presidente de la Cámara de Comercio,
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Cuba
Cuba elimina impuestos de importación a emprendedores
Cuba exoneró a productores privados del pago de impuestos de importación de insumos y materias primas hasta el 31 de diciembre, anunció el Ministerio de Finanzas, a tres semanas de las protestas que sacudieron a la isla.
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Brasile
Trabalhadores nascidos em janeiro podem sacar auxílio emergencial
Trabalhadores informais e inscritos no Cadastro Único para Programas Sociais do Governo Federal (CadÚnico), nascidos em fevereiro, podem sacar, a partir de hoje (2), a quarta parcela do auxílio emergencial 2021. O dinheiro foi depositado nas contas poupança digitais da Caixa Econômica Federal em 17 de julho. Os recursos também poderão ...
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Brasile
Brazil’s high-end market rebounds from pandemic and sells up to double 2019 figures
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - A Balmain blouse with a Paulo Camargo blazer. Mixed pants and Alexandre Birman sandals. A Chanel handbag. Rio de Janeiro doctor Andreia Frota's "look of the day" - owner of a clinic specialized in facial injections attended by the famous and wealthy in Barra da ...
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Brasile
Peer-to-peer loans grow in Brazil
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The impact of fintechs in the financial system is occurring in several ways. Increased competition and the consequent reduction in consumer costs are two of the main aspects. But startups are also broadening the alternatives both for those seeking a financial product or service and ...
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Brasile USA Argentina Venezuela
Only in Venezuela do U.S. foreign investments return less than in Argentina
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Total profit remittances from U.S. companies abroad to the United States were lower in 2020 than the year before. Compared with US$519.7 billion in 2019, they fell by about US$68 billion last year to US$452 billion, down 13%, according to official data released last week. ...
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Turchia
Business world starts sapling mobilization
With wildfires ravaging Turkey, killing at least six people and burning thousands of square meters of forests, the Turkish Forestry Ministry has announced that “new plantations will be made as the rain will start by the end of October.”
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Thailandia
Freight costs, container shortage put the squeeze on shippers
Exports seem to be the only driver to shore up the fragile Thai economy this year, ravaged by Covid-19 outbreaks.