Demand grows due to battle against effects of higher levels of air pollution China's dependency on imported natural gas is expected to surge almost 19 percent this year as the nation's battle against air pollution drives up demand for the ...
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Gross Domestic Product is a misleading measure of national success, say ANU experts. In a commentary piece for the latest edition of Nature, Crawford School of Public Policy's Professor Robert Costanza and Dr Ida Kubiszewski have urged ...
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As projected, GDP in the Eurozone expanded by a meagre 0.1% in Q3 2013, as export growth fell sharply. Economic activity is expected to accelerate modestly over the forecast horizon (+0.2% in Q4 2013, +0.2% in Q1 2014 and +0.3% in Q2 2014) ...
As reported by Germany's Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the German economy has indicated slower growth in 2013 as compared to the preceding years. The country's price, season and calendar adjusted gross domestic product (GDP) in ...
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India is targeting a gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate of 8-9 per cent in the coming years and to enable this growth, the economy needs the support of its power sector and India's electrical equipment industry is expected to play a ...
The Equipment Leasing and Finance Association (ELFA) which represents the $827 billion equipment finance sector, revealed its Top 10 Equipment Acquisition Trends for 2014. Given U.S. businesses, nonprofits and government agencies will spend ...
Bisphenol A impairs the function of proteins that C. This finding has been reported by researchers from the Ruhr-Universität Bochum and the University of Wuppertal. The substance, short BPA, is contained in many plastic products and is ...
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It is reported that Latin American steel demand will rise to 5% in 2014. The country's GDP growth is expected to boost steel demand growth, but the increase is not significant. Steel demand will be mainly affected by the national ...
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The National Pork Producers Council applauded today's introduction of congressional legislation to grant President Obama Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) as a means to conclude a successful Pacific Rim trade deal. The Obama administration ...
Japan's real gross domestic product for November rose a seasonally adjusted 0.1% from October, marking the fourth straight monthly rise, according to an estimate released Dec. 27 by the Japan Center for Economic Research. Personal ...
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This year the Eurozone will experience annual GDP growth for the first time since 2011, but at just 0.9% the growth will not be strong enough to support a level of uplift in financial services that will drive further economic recovery ...
Tags: Eurozone Financial Services, Business Lending, Financial Services
The upturn in the eurozone private sector economy gained momentum in December. Although the recovery remained modest and fragile overall, growth of output was nonetheless recorded throughout the second half of 2013. At a three-month high ...
Apple yesterday announced that App Store sales topped $10 billion in 2013, with December alone responsible for “record-breaking” revenues that exceeded $1 billion. According to a press release issued by the company, this ...
Total U.S. healthcare spending in 2012 increased by 3.7 percent -- 0.4 percentage points higher than in 2011 -- the lowest rate since 1960, U.S. officials say. An analysis by the Office of the Actuary at the Centers for Medicare and ...
According to a report released by the Ministry of Development Planning and Statistics, the ‘Qatar Economic Outlook 2013 – 2014 Update’, Qatar has seen a 6.2% increase in GDP compared to 2012 due partly to an increase in ...
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