2/2 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Pedestrians walk past posters on the streets that reads “No to the payment of the debt. Break with the IMF”, in Buenos Aires 2/2 By Aislinn Laing and Lucila Sigal…
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As countries begin to reopen after months of coronavirus lockdown, Rwanda is pressing on with its May coffee harvest. Rwanda, which supplied 21,000 tons of coffee to the global market in 2019, is about the…
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(Agence Ecofin) – Brainman Investments, une entreprise appartenant à l’homme d’affaires zimbabwéen, Douglas Kwande, a racheté l’unique entreprise de fabrication de verres du pays, Zimbabwe Glass Holdings (Zimglass), à un montant de 22 millions $, a-t-on…
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© Reuters. KUWAIT (Reuters) – The decline in oil prices and the value of investment assets since the start of the coronavirus outbreak will have an adverse impact on the “financial solvency” of the state,…
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A lack of access to a household toilet and clean water are putting many people in parts of Indonesia at risk of infection from the coronavirus. These findings come from a study we carried out…
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(Agence Ecofin) – La Commission des communications du Nigeria (NCC) et l’Association des opérateurs détenteurs de licence télécoms au Nigeria (ALTON) ont déclaré une fois de plus, cette fois à l’intention du Sénat, que la…
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© Reuters. NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenya and Uganda were hit by a power blackout on Saturday after what distributor Kenya Power (NR:) said was a system disturbance in the transmission grid. The neighbouring countries’ grids…
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What does Mother’s Day flowers have to do with cocaine? Very little, most people would think. But as an economist, I often explain to my students that the world is economically connected, often in strange…
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(Agence Ecofin) – Le ministère américain en charge de l’Emploi (Labour Department) a déclaré ce vendredi 8 mai 2020, que l’économie américaine a perdu plus de 20,5 millions d’emplois au terme du mois d’avril, faisant…
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© Reuters. BEIJING (Reuters) – China said on Saturday it would extend anti-dumping duties on certain alloy steel seamless tubes and pipes from the United States and European Union for five years starting May 10.…
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