It goes without saying that China has proven it is a true heavyweight global contender. The herculean growth achieved by China over the past two decades is unprecedented in the annals of human history. China has overtaken Japan to become ...
Tags: China, Standard and Poor's, data, economy
New Jersey-based Orion Systems Integrators, Inc. (Orion) is featured in the inaugural ranking of Inc.'s Hire Power Awards, recognizing the private businesses that have generated the most jobs in the past three years. Orion generated 176 ...
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World Bank Group support for Iraq over the next four years will focus on job creation,social inclusion and building stronger institutions.The Country Partnership Strategy which was discussed today by the World Bank Board of Executive ...
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PTI cited Mr Kaushik Basu chief economist of World Bank as saying that global economy will go through a very rough time in the next 2 years and it is time for India to invest in infrastructure and soft sides of development. Mr Basu while ...
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Gulf News cited Mr Farouq Iqbal director of the Strategic Cooperation Department in the Middle East and North Africa region of the World Bank as saying that countries which are rich in oil, petroleum and other commodities should prudently ...
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vanguardngr reported that Ajaokuta Steel Company was a big dream, and Mr Noel Onoja remembers with nostalgia the splendor of the complex, and the dream that it had the potential to place the country on the path of international industrial ...
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The Government of Iraq has launched a new national education strategy to improve access to quality education for Iraq's 33 million citizens. "This is Iraq's first ever national education strategy, which is unique in both Iraq and the ...
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More than 70 percent of the total revenue in 2012 attributable to sustainable products Osram used the Sustainable Innovation Forum 2012, taking place alongside the UN Climate Conference in Doha (Qatar), to present its current ...
The latest World Bank's report calls governments for urgent measures to stop global warming. It recommends them to put more than US$ 1 trillion, which are now used as a subsidy for fossil fuel, for better use – in sustainable and ...
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Cotton Council International(CCI)and Cotton Incorporated,in cooperation with USDA,jointly presented the seventh biennial Sourcing USA Summit in Rancho Palos Verdes,California.The event,held on November 12-16,attracted 400 delegates from 23 ...
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World Bank Group’s member, International Finance Corporation (IFC) plans to invest around $45m in SRF Industries (Thailand) and another $40m in the company’s South African business. The proposed investment in the Thailand's ...
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Thailand is likely to be boosted as the Asean insurance centre, in an effort to help enhance the industry to provide related services to developed economies, the country's Office of the Insurance Commission (OIC) has revealed. The country ...
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The Mozambican government is mulling on the proposal to roll out an agricultural insurance policy in order to serve the peasants of the country. It is expected that the government's proposal will receive full backing of the Mozambique ...
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Taipei, Nov. 1, 2012 (CENS)--The Directorate General of Budget, Accounting, and Statistics (DGBAS) revised downward, for the ninth time, its forecast for Taiwan's economic growth this year to 1.05% yesterday (Oct. 31). The DGBAS alerted ...
Tags: economic growth, anemic growth, The Directorate General of Budget
BT has started trialling a groundbreaking 10Gbit/s broadband network at Cornwall-based engineering firm Arcol UK. The proof-of-concept trial uses fibre technology called XGPON (Tens of Gigabits on a Passive Optical Network) that was ...