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Brasile
Abrir é bom para o Brasil
Protecionismo não fará bem aos Estados Unidos no longo prazo. No caso do Brasil, porém, fechar ainda mais a economia terá impactos bem mais fortes - n...
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USA
USA: a dicembre, accelerano le vendite di case in corso
(Teleborsa) - Si rafforza il mercato immobiliare statunitense, con una salita delle compravendite di case in corso. Il dato, pubblicato dall'Associazione degli operatori immobiliari (NAR), evidenzia...
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Brasile USA
Il miliardario brasiliano Eike Batista si consegna alla polizia a Rio de Janeiro.
Il miliardario brasiliano Eike Batista si consegna alla polizia a Rio de Janeiro. Su di lui, che si trovava a New York, negli Stati Uniti, pendeva un mandato di arresto per corruzione. Batista, uno degli uomini più ricchi del paese, è accusato di aver versato 16,5 milioni di dollari all’ex governatore Sergio ...
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Cina Hong Kong
La globalizzazione prudente di Pechino
Ho un amico cinese che fa l’analista economico per un grande istituto di ricerca di Hong Kong. Quando il 23 gennaio Donald Trump ha disdetto con una firma la Transpacific partnership (Tpp), l’accordo di libero scambio tra i paesi affacciati sul Pacifico messo faticosamente in piedi dall’amministrazione Obama, gli ho ...
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USA
Business in brief: Teva agrees to pay $225M in settlement with California plaintiffs
Insurers get boost from report allowing them to resume paying dividends; energy shares lower after Leumi Capital Markets trims share ratings; IDB Development loses suit over using Clal Insurance shares as collateral.
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USA Regno Unito
About 350,000 children at risk in western Mosul as offensive enters more dangerous phase
Source: Save the Children Country: IraqChildren are trapped in siege-like conditions under ISIS control in western Mosul and risk summary execution by militants if they try to flee, as Iraqi and coalition forces look set to advance deeper into the city.Medic in Mosul speaks of deadly escape from ISIS-held areas - ...
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Regno Unito Yemen
Conflict in Taiz maiming and killing children and other civilians
Source: Médecins Sans Frontières Country: YemenMSF report looks at impact of the war on Taiz, and the collapse of health services in the divided city where, in the last six months of 2016, a quarter of those injured were women and children. Conflict in Taiz, Yemen is indiscriminately maiming and killing children ...
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USA Indonesia Myanmar
Latest humanitarian snapshot highlights flooding in Philippines and displacement in Myanmar
Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Country: Bangladesh, Indonesia, Myanmar, PhilippinesAs of 30 January, about 100,000 people are displaced by flooding in Caraga (northeastern Mindanao, Philippines) due to successive weather systems affecting the area. BANGLADESH As of 25 January and following a new round of verification, aid agencies in Cox's ...
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Etiopia
Manufacturing exports are half of what was expected
The manufacturing sector has fallen short of expectations. The Ministry of Industry (MoI) reported to parliament that exports of manufactured products only performed half as well as expected over the last six months of the 2016/17 budget year. The nation earned USD 198.5 million in export revenues which is 56.5 ...
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Etiopia
High rent, lack of planning cause many to return business licenses
14,000 licenses returned in the past six months Redevelopment work, higher office rental prices, poor marketing, and bankruptcy have caused 14,000 people with business licenses to stop working and return their license to the Addis Ababa Trade Bureau in the past six months. Addis Ketema sub city the location of ...