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The importance of African cities has been more recently emphasized in research conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit on the 25 top African cities, finding that companies across most sectors are late in harnessing the potential of urban centers across the continent.34,35 FIGURE 5: EXCLUDING NORTHERN AND SOUTH AFRICA, TEN MAJOR SSA CITIES ...
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Both countries continue to run large budget deficits. India's fiscal deficit for 2008-2009 stood at 6.5 percent of gdp and it is rising, according to Bloomberg. Pakistan has said its fiscal deficit will widen to as much as 4.9% of gross domestic product in 2009-2010, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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Our unprecedented rise in oil production, from 5 million barrels per day (b/d) to a 40-year high of 9.5 million b/d in only 7 years, 1 helped to prevent a price spike from being triggered by the Libyan revolution, to sustain Iran oil sanctions, and to mitigate the market effects of a series of unplanned oil disruptions across the globe.
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Source: EM haven hunt turns up few bargains, Feb 3, 2014, FT beyondbrics. Five emerging market ADRs are listed below with their current dividend yields for consideration: 1.Company:Fomento Economico Mexicano SAB de CV Current Dividend Yield: 3.76% Sector:Beverages Country:Mexico. 2.Company:Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd
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By offering to acquire South African retailer Massmart for an estimated US$4.2-billion (R28.5-billion), Wal-Mart in late September 2010 joined the parade of global companies looking to South Africa as a springboard into what is increasingly seen as the world's last great investment frontier.
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Apollo's solution is to bring marginal costs down by serving the entire African and Brazilian markets out of South Africa, bringing plant utilisation up to 90 per cent. The other question is how the company is sourcing this $1bn. Kanwar says the funding will come from internal cash accruals, plus $150m raised from a qualified institutional buyer.
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Africa: A ripe opportunity - Understanding the pharmaceutical market opportunity and developing sustainable business models in Africa, IMS. Publication date: 2012. View the publication. Looking for other reproductive health publications?
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Worrying fall off in South African mining research - Wits prof JOHANNESBURG - About 20 years ago, there were 600 to 800 people involved in full-time mining research in South Africa. "If there are 40 now, it's a lot," says ... One-in-four South Africans jobless, mine layoffs loom - Yahoo! News ...
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As global energy dynamics shift, South Africa must chart the future course of its coal and platinum mining industries At the December 2012 African National Conference party convention, President Jacob Zuma initiated a comprehensive revision of the government's mining strategy.
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Another five countries - Angola, Botswana, Gabon, Namibia and South Africa - are in the upper middle-income group. Equatorial Guinea, with an average income of US$27,478 in 2011, is classed as a high-income country. Progress on reducing poverty and improving human development has been less impressive.
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When we buy assets in Poland or Mexico or South Africa, we purchase the local currency to buy assets and, when we sell them, we can freely convert the currency back into dollars. That's not the case in Argentina. To the extent there are more problems turning peso assets into dollars abroad, the less desirable peso assets are going to be.
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With the South African mining sector shrinking in six of the nine quarters to Q1 2012, the platinum producers are fast seeing their profitability fall to zero. In this context, a 137 per cent...
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A wave of new technologies has made it possible to extract oil and gas from shale rock formations, and the results have been astonishing. By some estimates, the United States is on track to overtake Saudi Arabia as the world's largest oil producer as early as 2017, start exporting more oil and gas than it imports by 2025, and achieve full energy self-sufficiency by 2030.
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Rulfo era un hombre que amaba a su mujer. Y después la vida se interpuso. De Clara Aparicio sabemos aún menos. Las 84 cartas la pintan como un ser más allá de lo humano. La devoción que Rulfo sentía por ella era religiosa y no nos permite ver quién era ella realmente. Este libro nos dice mucho sobre él, pero casi nada sobre ella.
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April 2014. Soule-Kohndou, F. 2014. South Africa - Competing with the other BRICs in Africa. GREAT Insights, Volume 3, Issue 4. April 2014. South Africa often markets itself as the gateway to Africa. This position becomes increasingly questionable as it faces growing competition from the BRICs and from other booming economies in Africa.
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After spending weeks searching for welders for his offshore oil platform factory in southern Brazil, Ivo Dworschak finally turned to the woman who had been making him coffee for the past six months. "I told her that if she knew how to knit she must have flexible wrists so she could be a welder," he says.
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Last year, during the World Economic Forum-India Summit in Delhi, a collection of African leaders and Indian businesses committed to expanding Indo-African trade to more than $500 billion by 2020,...
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Furthermore, South Africa, with a gross national savings rate of 16.5% of GDP, ranks 87th (out of 144 countries) in terms of the savings rate and compares poorly with its companion economies in the BRICS group. In Africa, fifteen countries have a higher gross national savings rate than South Africa.
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Overall mining output in South Africa declined for the fourth month in a row in December, falling 7.5 per cent year on year. Added to this there has been uncertainty surrounding the ruling ANC's...
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The French dock landing ship, also referred to more accurately as an amphibious assault ship, FNS MISTRAL which arrived in Cape Town this week on what appears to be another 'show and tell' mission aimed at selling a vessel of this class to the South African Navy. In 2010 a sister ship of this class, FNS TONNERRE also paid South Africa a visit.
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For example, South Africa's King III Code on corporate governance, introduced in 2010, sets the benchmark in this area. Although it remains officially voluntary, listed companies on the national stock exchange are challenged to adopt the code, or explain why they don't.
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6 days agoSouth African business organizations have asked the government to slow its plans to boost carbon taxes, arguing the planned charges are unaffordable. The groups, which represent the biggest energy ...
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East African officials have repeatedly threatened punitive measures against the warring parties, and some advocacy groups have argued that sanctions by South Sudan's neighbors could have the greatest effect, if they had the will to enforce them. 63 Uganda, a key trading partner, is seen as most closely aligned with President Kiir—Uganda ...
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Mining conflicts around the world - September 2012 ... it supplied large quantities of uranium for nuclear weapons and power plants in South Africa, USSR, China, Japan, Europe, and the U.S. 1976.
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Petrobras of Brazil had a market cap of about $400.0 billion in 2011. Now its market cap has plunged to just $52.0 billion. Corruption and political interference in the operations of this state-owned firm has crushed Petrobras ( PBR) in the past few years with their shareholders suffering the most.
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In an interview with beyondbrics, the Chamber of Mines' Vusi Mabena said that the sector still has a long way to go. "Capital investment is one of the biggest obstacles," he said on Friday. He said...
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The 51 per cent of YPF has a market value of around $5bn, according to analysts' estimates. A visibly angry Ms Fernández made the announcement on live television to a cheering audience at the government palace. Rejecting recent criticism from Spain, Ms Fernández said she would not bow to foreign pressure.
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The Land Court has the jurisdiction over mining related conflicts, specifically over conflicts " arising in relation to prospecting, exploration or mining or to any permit, claim, license or lease granted or issued under [ the MRA 1989 ]" 4 and land access conflicts in relation to mining activities. 5
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South Africa, the southernmost country on the African continent, renowned for its varied topography, great natural beauty, and cultural diversity, all of which have made the country a favoured destination for travelers since the legal ending of apartheid (Afrikaans: "apartness," or racial separation) in 1994. South Africa's remoteness—it lies thousands of miles distant from major ...
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Wu Shengzai, 50 years old, was killed after he was hit with a mining trolley truck pushed by rioting miners. Two other injured Chinese managers at Collum, located 200 miles south of the Zambian...
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