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Vai alla Scheda Paese »There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.
— John Fitzgerald Kennedy
There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.
— John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Let us set a quick scenario. Kevin is an entrepreneur who owns a kiosk selling locally brewed beers. Kevin keeps a log book of all his sales, so that he always knows how much profit, or loss, he is making. That's good recording of business data but it could ...
East African Court of Justice case seeks to prevent other EAC member states from signing agreement
Okechukwu Nnodim, Abuja A consortium of German renewable energy companies led by Nigus has concluded plans with the Federal Government to build five solar power plants worth N183bn ($600m) in some North-Eastern states. According to the Nigerian Investment Promotion Council and the consortium, each of the solar power plants will ...
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -As a follow-up to the Investment Forum held in New York in September 2015, the National Investment Commission in collaboration with the British Embassy in Monrovia (through its Foreign Commonwealth Office) and Developing Market Associates (DMA) a leading investment promotion firm for sovereign governments worldwide, will be hosting ...
American consumers ramped up their spending last month in a sign of robust health heading into the crucial holiday shopping season.
Parliament has expanded investigations into the theft of Sh1.6 billion NYS cash after fresh details indicated 17 more banks handled money for suppliers since 2013.PAC chairman Nicholas Gumbo said at Parliament buildings on Tuesday that the committee will request the DCI and EACC to look into the transactions."More than 100 ...
President Uhuru Kenyatta left the country on Tuesday for Morocco to attend the 22nd Conference of Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) - also known as COP22. State House said that the conference will focus on the implementation of the Paris Agreement on climate ...
US President-elect Donald Trump was at the receiving end at the UN-led climate change talks in Morocco, with countries saying he risked isolation should he pull his country out of efforts to reduce global warming.
The size of Vietnam's public procurement market, including public infrastructure investment in the areas of roads and ports, is estimated at US$21.9 billion in 2014. The Vietnamese government expects the size of the procurement market to grow to $27.1 billion by 2020. In the Vietnamese public procurement market, the biggest sources ...
A trade war may break out between the United States and China right after Donald Trump won the Presidential race. As it is getting more likely that the President-elect will designate China as a country manipulating its exchange rate at the expense of trading partners and that his campaign pledges ...
The Free Trade Agreement between South Korea and the US has been helpful in creating jobs in the US through Korean comp
South Korean stocks fell on Tuesday, derailed by sell-offs by foreign investors over concerns of a strong US dollar. The
ALGIERS-The Bank of Algeria will introduce "major reforms" to facilitate non-hydrocarbon export operations, announced Tuesday Governor Mohamed Loukal, referring to the extension of currencies repatriation delays and the creation of a foreign exchange market. "We are strongly willing to overcome hindrances to export. These structural measures will allow us ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Tuesday that roadblocks to implementation of the U.S.-led Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) could shift attention to another envisioned regional free trade pact that includes China, but not the United States. “There’s no doubt that there would be a pivot to the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) ...
Hong Kong tycoon Richard Li is poised to buy American International Group Inc.’s Fuji Life Insurance Co. business, a deal that marks his FWD Group’s first foray into Japanese insurance. AIG will continue to offer property-casualty coverage in the Asian country, the New York-based company said Monday in a statement ...
Britain's vote to leave the European Union and the election of Donald Trump have transformed the world in a year, Prime Minister Theresa May said Monday, in a speech arguing that governments must heed people's concerns about the impact of globalization on jobs and communities.In a major foreign policy speech ...
Tourism Minister Edward Zammit Lewis said that Air Malta negotiations are ongoing but, when asked, did not say whether Alitalia has indicated the possibility that it might want to back out of the Air Malta deal.Asked by The Malta Independent whether any Maltese official had received indications Alitalia wanted to ...
Foreign Minister George Vella said that he is uncomfortable with high-rise buildings, saying that we are experiencing "over-development".Interviewed by Pierre Portelli, The Malta Independent's business and content director, in this week's edition of INDEPTH, Dr Vella said he is not against development but he would like to see a better ...
In the political arena it looks as if it is the same the world all over. The biggest shock in the US electoral history has started to sink in. One hopes that President-elect Donald Trump’s political distasteful rhetoric during the electoral campaign will be withdrawn. To be fair, in his ...
An estimated 30,000 Kenyan illegal immigrants are now at imminent risk of being deported from the USA back to Kenya.On Sunday Donald Trump said that he wants to deport three million illegal immigrants "immediately" he becomes President in January. There are around 11 million illegal immigrants in the USA who ...
The number of Korean firms moving operations to Vietnam has increased to 5,500. This is 24 years since the two countries opened their diplomatic relations in 1992. Do Nhat Hoang, Director General of the Vietnamese Foreign Investment Agency, said in an interview with the Korea Economic Daily on November 14, ...