With government budgets across Europe set to shrink significantly in the coming years, the parent company of Airbus predicted that the group’s military business would become increasingly focused on markets in Asia, Latin America and the Persian Gulf and it hinted that the outsourcing of European aerospace jobs to those regions was all but inevitable.
“It [...]
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Newark, U.S.- On this particular day at NJIT (New Jersey Science and Technology University), the focus of one of the top technological minds in the country is on cork.
It is a single cork, from Portugal, where 320 million pounds of bottle stoppers are produced every year. The billion-dollar cork industry is [...]
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Latin America and the Caribbean’s faster-than-forecast recovery from the global financial crisis requires “careful” macroeconomic measures to avoid the emergence of a bubble, the IMF International Monetary Fund said.
Nicolas Eyzaguirre director of the IMF’s Western Hemisphere department, said there are “incipient,” though not “clear,” signs of a bubble forming in some countries. Speaking to [...]
ITS economies may have improved recently, but much of Latin America has performed poorly over the past two generations. The gap in income per head between the region and developed countries has widened since 1960, while many east Asian countries that were poorer have leapfrogged ahead. The root cause has been Latin America’s slow—or even [...]
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Leaders of the Western Hemisphere recognize that energy is fundamental to sustainable development and they are committed to expanding cooperation to address the urgent and intertwined challenges of energy security and climate change. Energy Ministers will meet with civil society and the private sector at the Second Energy and Climate Ministerial of the Americas on [...]
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