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Brazil' Gov't Calls For WTO Panel Against Canadian Subsidies To Bombardier
The Brazilian government will request that the World Trade Organization's (WTO) Dispute Settlement Body to set up a panel to discuss the case against Canada related to subsidies given by the North American country to the aviation sector, benefiting Bombardier's C-Series program, which competes with Brazil's Embraer.
The WTO will be requested to examine additional than 20 programs of subsidies granted by Canada to the aviation sector of the country due or not instantly related to the development of the new Bombardier family of aircraft in the context of the C-Series program. The Brazilian government questions if the subsidies are compatible with WTO rules.
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ARGENTINA: Country To Resume Pork Imports From The United States
Argentina will any minute at this time resume importing pork from the United States for the initial time since 1992, according to reports.
The announcement came a few days next U.S. Vice President Mike Pence visited Argentinean President Mauricio Macri in Buenos Aires.
According to a White Home statement, the United States is the world's leading exporter of pork, and this agreement opens a potential market of $ 10 million per year for American pork producers.
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$33.2 billion for transport infrastructure through 2019
The new National Transport Plan aims to close Argentina’s infrastructure gap to make the economy regionally and globally competitive.
Ranked a paltry 87th out of 140 nations in the world by the World Economic Forum for competitiveness in infrastructure – behind Ivory Coast and just ahead of Albania – Argentina’s creaking infrastructure, from unreliable power distribution to poor transport links, is holding it back. Meanwhile, Chile and Brazil rank 45th and 74th respectively, demonstrating the extent to which Argentina lost out to its neighbors in terms of foreign direct investment under the mismanagement of previous administrations.
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GDP (PPP): $4.066 trillion (2009)Area: 17,840,000 km²
Population: 385,742,554
Pop. Density: 21.4 per km²
Unemployment: 9%
Female income:55.7% of male
Countries: 12
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Climate change laws around the world
2017/05/14There has been a 20-fold increase in the number of global climate change laws since 1997, according to the most comprehensive database of relevant policy and legislation.
The database, produced by the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and the Sabin Center on Climate Change Law, includes more than 1,200 relevant policies across 164 countries, which account for 95% of global greenhouse gas emissions.
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Colombia Economic Overview The oil shock was a drag on growth
2017/05/08Colombia
Growth to accelerate after the fall in oil prices
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Chile Growth to recover from the fall in copper prices
2017/05/08Chile
Growth to recover from the fall in copper prices
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ArgentinaEconomic Overview Getting the economy back on its feet
2017/05/07Argentina
The skies clear up
Peru Year in Review 2016
2017/04/18The year 2016 brought both political and economic changes in Peru, with a new government moving quickly to roll out strategic measures aimed at tackling long-standing problems and returning the country to higher levels of increase.
Following his election in June, Peru’s new president, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, pledged to lift GDP increase to 5% by 2018.
Bridging infrastructure gaps and addressing the perennial problem of the informal economy were high on the schedule, with a series of 112 measures announced to steer the government’s policy schedule forward.
Colombia Year in Review 2016
2017/04/18The recently brokered peace transaction between the government and the FARC could usher in a new era of increase for the Colombian economy. However, even if the agreement holds, it will take time for the dividends of peace to pay out.
At the end of November the Colombian Congress signed off on a peace accord by the government and FARC representatives, bringing within reach the end of the 52-year-long conflict. The government received congressional approval for a modified version of the agreement only two months next a peace transaction was initially rejected by a referendum vote in early October.
Latin America Economy Renewed confidence in Latin America’s brightest economy
2017/03/04The PPK cabinet has been working diligently to modernize the country and replace business confidence, while unlocking investments and infrastructure megaprojects in a bid to boost the country’s economy
Colombia Year in Review 2014
2015/04/01While falling investment and lower commodity prices weighed on Latin America in 2014, Colombia’s economy displayed resilience that led to it outperforming a lot of of its neighbours.
The Latin American way new Trans-Pacific Partnership
2013/11/15Cross-border trade bodies in the Americas have a variable record, with critics rounding on the likes of Mercosur or even the new Trans-Pacific Partnership. However, the Pacific Alliance – largely driven by the private sectors of Chile, Peru, Colombia and Mexico – appears to be showing how such bodies can work entirely.
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Hernán Lombardi, Minister of Public Media & Contents System
2017/04/29With Argentina’s tumultuous political and economic history, the new government came to power on a pledge of building institutions to ensure long-term increase. Beyond opening to foreign investment , the governing Cambiemos coalition has noted the cultural change brought to mark Argentina’s new direction. As Argentina establishes its relationship with the world, it will re-emphasize its relationship binding its own society through its media content. Argentina’s national-owned media has had as difficult a history as its politics, mired in periods of either censorship or abuse by the government by using it as a political tool. Integral to the reform of the apparatus is the man at the top: Hernán Lombardi, who heads the System of Public Media Content and oversees national-owned media across public radio, television, and news outlets.
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Argentina rising Argentine business mogul increases investment in Argentina’s new economic environment
2017/04/19Long one of Argentina’s most successful businessmen, Eduardo Elsztain presides over his diversified company at the nexus of three critical increase sectors of the Argentine economy: real estate development, agribusiness, and home mortgages. While his companies have invested and grown to become Argentine multinational companies over a lot of decades, he sits down with Nicolas Carver of The Worldfolio to discuss the changes with his company to seize the opportunity of Argentina’s current return to international credit and bond market. The result is his prized IRSA company becoming a not-so-micro microcosm of the Argentine economy itself: poised to expand as Argentina’s economy does the same.
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Luft Energía New push to ‘make things happen’ in renewables
2016/12/24With all the apertures of the Argentine economy, the sector with the greatest increase potential is renewable energy. Currently receiving 1.5% of its energy from renewable sources, the Argentine government has passed the Renewable Energy Law in 2016, pledging to make renewables account for 20% of the grid by 2025. Such a pledge has ensued highly demanded tenders being handed out, and one woman saw an opportunity. Before vice-president of Argentina’s national oil company YPF, Doris Capurro discusses her new company Luft Energía, which she hopes to use to satisfy her career desire that she could at no time fulfill at YPF: to make Argentina go green.
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Marcos Peña, Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers, Argentina
2016/12/11Argentina’s Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers Marcos Peña discusses the work of the innovative and forward-thinking government of Mauricio Macri, which came to power in December 2015, promising to move the country away from the polarization and economic problems that have dogged national politics in recent years.
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Colombia stock exchange chief looks to make up capital market ground
2015/07/28The chief of Colombia's stock exchange, Juan Pablo Cordoba, discusses the need for further capital market integration in the Andean region, and tells Silvia Pavoni how deepening its capital markets ties in with the country's wider economic plan.
As is the case in most Latin American nations, Colombia is looking to develop its capital markets and attract investment to its economy. Unlike a lot of Latin American nations, however, Colombia has been very proactive in its attempts to achieve these goals.
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Ubeimar Delgado Governor of Valle del Cauca
2013/08/06As Cali is placed in the international spotlight with the organization of the World Games, United World interviews Ubeimar Delgado, Governor of Valle del Cauca who describes the event as an “opportunity for the region”So we are talking about investment with tourism potential – since we have talked about the breakwater and the Calima Lake. Could you tell us about Valle del Cauca’s tourism potential? -
Ubeimar Delgado Governor of Valle del Cauca
2013/08/06As Cali is placed in the international spotlight with the organization of the World Games, United World interviews Ubeimar Delgado, Governor of Valle del Cauca who describes the event as an “opportunity for the region”So we are talking about investment with tourism potential – since we have talked about the breakwater and the Calima Lake. Could you tell us about Valle del Cauca’s tourism potential? -
Chile's central bank governor :Rodrigo-Vergara
2013/03/13The expansionary monetary policies of developed nations is making life difficult for those in the developing world. So says Chile's central bank governor, who is keen to resist a 'currency war' – for presently – and as well tells us why central bank independence is of great importance.
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Chilean Energy minister Jorge Bunster
2013/01/14Chilean Energy minister Jorge Bunster regretted on Friday Methanex Canada announcement on its decision to idle operations in Chile in March due to lack of adequate natural gas supply. The company stated that it does not have sufficient feedstock to keep the plant in operation given the natural gas supply challenges.
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Álvaro Zúñiga Benavides Founding President and CEO of FuXion Biotech SAC
2016/03/01In 2006, next having worked for additional than 15 years in the food processing and manufacturing industry, Álvaro Zúñiga Benavides founded FuXion, a incomparable venture specialized in high-quality food and food supplements.
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Peruvian Energy,Beatriz Merino, President of Sociedad Peruana de Hidrocarburos
2015/09/28Beatriz Merino, President of Sociedad Peruana de Hidrocarburos (SPH) sits down with United World to discuss the current situation of the country’s energy mix and the role of both public and private sector in the country’s Energy industry increase.
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Mr. Gabriel Díaz President of Grupo Oikos
2015/05/29Oikos closed 2014 with 25% increase, with a turnover of COP 479.000 million. For 2015, it has set the ambitious target to grow 20%.
After the historical Summit of the Americas –one of reconciliation, as Cuba was present–, how do you see Colombia\\\'s positioning as a regional leader over the years?
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Mr. Mario Bergara President of the Central Bank of Uruguay
2015/05/26Founded in 1967, Uruguay's central bank (BCU) regulates the country's banking and economy. It issues currency and controls money supply by setting interest rates; regulates credit; and oversees the currency exchange and the country's private commercial banks.
To begin, we would like to ask for your opinion about where Uruguay will be heading to in the next five years. What do you think will be the challenges that President Tabare Vazquez will face?
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