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Portogallo
OCDE corta estimativa do crescimento da economia portuguesa em 2019 para 1,8%
Organização para a Cooperação e Desenvolvimento Económico destaca que têm sido os fatores internos a suportar a expansão do PIB e que o consumo privado deverá continuar a aumentar, mas que o menor dinamismo da economia dos parceiros comerciais de Portugal terá impacto negativo nas exportações portuguesas.
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Portogallo
Há mais reformados do que trabalhadores em 23% dos concelhos
É uma medida do envelhecimento do país: em 23% dos concelhos do continente, vivem mais reformados por velhice do que trabalhadores. Há anos que a baixa natalidade e a maior esperança de vida ameaçam tornar Portugal um país de velhos mas, em um de cada quatro concelhos, essa já é ...
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Portogallo
Salários negociados na contratação coletiva sobem acima da inflação há três anos
Os salários negociados na contratação coletiva registaram em 2018 aumentos superiores à inflação pelo terceiro ano consecutivo, segundo o relatório anual do Centro de Relações Laborais (CRL) que é apresentado, em Lisboa, esta terça-feira.
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Nigeria
Insurance Industry Capitalisation Rises To N18bn
LEADERSHIP : Twelve years after the last recapitalisation exercise in Nigeria’s insurance industry, insurance companies with composite license will now need to upgrade their capital base from N5billion to N18 billion to continue to underwrite life and non-life insurance businesses in the country, LEADERSHIP learnt. The new capitalisation, which translates ...
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Nigeria
NIRSAL, Others Sign Deal To Fix 55,000 Grounded Tractors Nationwide
LEADERSHIP : The Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL), along with its technical partner on agricultural mechanization – Machines and Equipment Corporation Africa (MECA) have signed an agreement with the World Bank’s FADAMA III-AF programme for the management of its agricultural infrastructure. Part of the deal is ...
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Nigeria
Telecoms Sector Contributed N2trn To GDP
LEADERSHIP : The Minister of Communications, Barr. Adebayo Shittu, has said the Nigerian telecom sector has contributed N2 trillion which is about 9.5 per cent of the nation’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). He made this known at the valedictory press conference in his honour yesterday in Abuja, saying the sector ...
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Nigeria
FG Okays 0.2% Import Levy On CIF
LEADERSHIP : The federal government has approved a rate of 0.2 percent as a new import levy on Cost, Insurance, and Freight (CIF) that will be charged on imports coming into Nigeria. Minister of Finance, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, disclosed this to State House correspondents after the federal executive council presided ...
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USA
The most important detail in Kushner’s plan for the Palestinian economy
By agreeing to host next month’s economic forum, Bahrain gave a boost to Jared Kushner’s peace efforts. Now the main question is: Will the Gulf states actually pull out their checkbooks?
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Cina
Resisting U.S. and warming up to China, Israel won’t form body to vet foreign investment
Government team tasked with examining the idea has quietly recommended against it, so as not to offend Beijing
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Angola
Angola: President Calls for Investment-Oriented Country's Publicising
[ANGOP] Luanda -Angolan head of State João Lourençon Monday urged the newly appointed ambassadors to disseminate the image of a "new Angola" focused on foreign investment.