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Brasile
Para entidades, decreto sobre legislação trabalhista trará insegurança jurídica
O pacote proposto pelo governo tem sido apontado por juízes, procuradores, advogados e auditores como uma tentativa de “desestruturar” a fiscalização em empresas Agência Brasil Entidades que representam juízes, procuradores, advogados e auditores fiscais do trabalho pediram que o governo federal desista de editar um decreto para ...
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Brasile
Safra de grãos deve ser recorde em 2021, diz IBGE
O Brasil deve registrar, em 2021, safra recorde de cereais, leguminosas e oleaginosas, segundo estimativa de janeiro do Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE). De acordo com a previsão, o país deve produzir 262,2 milhões de toneladas, resultado 3,2% superior ao registrado no ano passado. A previsão de janeiro para este ano é 0,7% ...
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Brasile
Serviços registram queda de 7,8% em 2020, revela pesquisa do IBGE
O setor de serviços registrou queda de 7,8% em seu volume no acumulado do ano de 2020. Esse foi o recuo mais intenso do indicador desde o início da série histórica, em 2012. O dado foi divulgado hoje (11), no Rio de Janeiro, pelo Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística ...
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Austria
Home of Austria’s finance minister raided by police
Move is part of wide-ranging probe into bribery linked to country’s gambling lobby
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Brasile USA Cuba
Press, health and education remain in state control under Cuba reforms
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Cuba's weekend announcement that it would authorize private enterprise in most sectors of its economy excludes 124 areas, such as the press, health and education, the labor ministry said Wednesday, February 11th. The reform represents a major step in a new direction for the communist ...
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Brasile USA Argentina
After crunch talks, Argentina decides not to raise grain export taxes
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Argentina's government has decided not to go ahead with proposals to hike taxes on farm exports or limit how much grain can be shipped abroad to curb rising food prices, after warnings from farmers that they would protest the measures. "We can convey to our ...
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Brasile
Minas Gerais Federal University is developing new Covid-19 vaccine
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Provided everything goes as planned and the required investments are made, Brazil will have a domestic vaccine against the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) in 2022. The first national immunizer against Covid-19 is being developed by the Center of Technology in Vaccines (CT-Vacinas) of the Federal University ...
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Brasile
Real estate launches down 8% in 2020 in São Paulo, while sales rise 4%
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, the city of São Paulo saw new real estate launches drop 8% in 2020 to 60,000 units, while sales rose 4% to 51,400 units. The figures came from the São Paulo Housing Developers' Association (SECOVI-SP), released during a press conference ...
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Nigeria
FG, UN Reiterates Commitment To Ensure Substantial Food Systems In Nigeria
By Blessing Bature-Akpakpan, The Federal Government and the United Nations have reiterated their commitment to ensuring substantial and positive changes in Nigeria’s food systems. The Permanent Secretary, Budget and National Planning, Mrs Olusola Idowu, at a webinar for journalists, said Nigeria is working with the United Nation and other stakeholders ...
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Nigeria
Tenure Extension For IGP Within PMB’s Prerogative, Group Insists
By ANDREW ESSIEN ABUJA A group under the umbrella of Citizens Action for Good Governance (CAGG) has said the extension of tenure for the Inspector General of Police Adamu Mohammed is within the prerogative of President Muhammadu Buhari and therefore legal before the law. Citing precedence from the regime of ...