The economic orthodoxy has long been that governments should try to balance their books and leave all the heavy lifting in managing their economies to central banks. We saw this writ large in the years…
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Imagine running on a cement footpath, and then suddenly through dry sand. Just to keep upright, you would have to slow down and change the way you run. In the same way, a walking robot…
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(Agence Ecofin) – La covid-19 a durablement affecté l’activité de nombreux exploitants agricoles africains. Près de 600 000 bénéficieront de manière indirecte d’un appui de l’Export Trading Group qui a conclu à cet effet une facilité…
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(Agence Ecofin) – Il aura fallu plus de dix ans à Liquid Telecom pour relier l’Afrique de l’Ouest à l’Afrique de l’Est par la fibre optique. C’est désormais chose faite et l’entreprise entre dans une nouvelle…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: U.S. Treasury Secretary Yellen attends economic briefing at the White House in Washington By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will meet on Tuesday with Jubilee USA…
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© Reuters. Views of Total Grandpuits oil refinery TOKYO (Reuters) – Oil prices fell on Tuesday, extending declines for a third day, as concerns about rising stockpiles in the United States added to the threat…
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The IMF sees that the COVID-19 pandemic has triggered an extraordinary contraction of the global economy, but policy makers should remain vigilant as financial vulnerabilities are rising, the Fund’s Financial Counselor Tobias Adrian said ahead…
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President Joe Biden commemorated the COVID-19 pandemic’s one-year anniversary by giving Americans an ambitious goal: Return to a semblance of normalcy by the Fourth of July. “But to get there we can’t let our guard…
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During COVID-19 lockdowns, a major concern for LGBTIQ+ communities, mental health professionals and academics was that young lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer and questioning, intersex and asexual+ people may suffer from being stuck in transphobic,…
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(Agence Ecofin) – Motivé par son désir d’expansion à l’étranger, le gestionnaire immobilier émirati Aldar cible une acquisition de 51 % dans l’une des principales sociétés immobilières d’Egypte. La proposition financière valorise l’entité visée, la Sodic,…
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