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Panama
Debaten la penalización de la evasión fiscal
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Brasile India
Defining emerging markets
WHAT COUNTS AS an emerging market? Broadly speaking, an economy that is not too rich, not too poor and not too closed to foreign capital. The term was coined by Antoine van Agtmael in 1981 when he was working for the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a division of the World ...
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India
Worries about premature industrialisation
BANGLADESH EXPORTS 60% more ready-made garments than India, a country with over eight times its population. On the busy roads of Dhaka, Bangladesh’s capital, white vans nose through the traffic on “Emergency Export Duty”, according to the ambulance-like letters painted on their sides. The success of this quintessentially labour-intensive industry ...
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USA
Protectionism and its risks
EVEN BEFORE THEY claim their baggage at the airport, visitors to the city of San Luis Potosí in central Mexico see an advertisement for the site where Ford Motors was planning to build a $1.6bn factory. The Planta Ford is still marked on a map in the arrivals hall, albeit ...
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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