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1 minuto Nigeria announced on Wednesday a target to double its manufacturing output to 20 percent of GDP within six years and will set up production hubs across the country in partnership with regional aid banks.  Nigeria is Africa’s biggest economy but it lacks a strong manufacturing base, which contributes less than 10 percent to its total gross domestic product (GDP). The country has maintained a strong currency to ensure it can keep imports pouring in, with a growing proportion coming from China.  “Project Continue lendo→

1 minuto Os governos do Mato Grosso e da Bolívia se reuniram para discutir a comercialização da energia excedente da UTE de San Matías, que fica a menos de 110 km de Cáceres. De acordo com Joaquín Rodriguez Gutierrez, presidente executivo interino da  Empresa de Energia da Bolívia, a usina será ampliada e o objetivo é oferecer 90 MW da produção extra a um preço competitivo. A Bolívia já vende energia para Argentina e quer ter acesso ao mercado brasileiro. O próximo passo, na Continue lendo→

menos de 1 minuto South Africa’s special economic zones programme has reached its full implementation stage, with 115 operational investors ploughing in over R16.8 billion, said Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies. While at the first national special economic zones investment conference hosted by his department in partnership with the KwaZulu-Natal department of economic development, tourism, and environmental affairs, Davies said these companies had created 15,716 direct jobs. “Since the introduction of the new SEZ legislation in 2014, the number of designated zones has increased, Continue lendo→

3 minutos When the island of Hainan was designated as China’s 12th free-trade zone by President Xi Jinping in April last year, it came with an ambition to make the area operational by 2020, and reach a “mature” development stage in 2035. But one year on, how far has China’s southernmost province lived up to expectations? From November to March, the Hainan free-trade zone attracted 185.7 billion yuan (US$27.6 billion) of investment in three batches, allocated to 378 construction projects, including infrastructure, a tax-free Continue lendo→