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Calf Aren’t Cheated Anymore, Cow Urine Fetches About $3/Litre [18 Feb 2009]  
Karanagiri, a village 280 kms away from Bangalore, the IT capital of India; people here raise cows to sell their urine and dung, but interestingly not milk. A litre of cow milk is half a dollar in Ind  ...More
Tags: cow urine     calf     bangalore    
The EU Prods Thailand to be Proactive on FTA [03 Mar 2009]  
European Commission Trade Director-General and Chief Negotiator, Philippe Meyer said in Bangkok at the sidelines of ASEAN Business Investment Summit that the EU was keen on inking a free trade deal wi  ...More
Tags: european commission     bangkok     Singapore    
The US Truck Ban Receives Retribution from Mexico with Higher Tariffs on its Goods [17 Mar 2009]  
The Economy Secretary of Mexico Gerardo Ruiz Mateos stated they would impose higher tariffs on 90 items from the US in retaliation to the last week’s truck ban. The hike in tariffs and the list of goo  ...More
Tags: US     US Truck Ban     Economy Secretary of Mexico    
Rudd Roles Out State-owned Mega Plan to Tweak Broadband Speed [07 Apr 2009]  
Rudd's center-left Labor Government has decided to boost the country’s Broadband services by 100 times faster through establishing a public-private partnership company, in which the government will ho  ...More
Tags: broadband     malcolm turnbull     broadband services    
Spain Continues to Be Haunted by Bankruptcy Bogey [06 Aug 2009]  
The Spanish companies and individuals filing bankruptcy or insolvency suits in the first two quarters of 2009 had already overtaken the total number of declarations of the previous year, reported the  ...More
Tags: Spain     bankruptcy     economic crisis    
New Banking Software to Make Life Easy for SMEs Worldwide [03 Sep 2009]  
In a recent press release by the International Trade Centre (ITC), the export development agency of the WTO and the UN, has informed that it had launched a software to assess the credit worthiness of  ...More
Tags: bank     SME     ITC     UNOG     finance    
Bangladeshi SMEs Want Regulatory Barriers Disposed [15 Sep 2009]  
In a recent conference organized by the SME Foundation of Bangladesh has inferred that the country needed an SME-friendly environment without regulatory barriers to take the sector to the next level o  ...More
Tags: Bangladesh     SME     MIDAS    
Bangladesh Goes India and China way on Rice-husk Power [05 Oct 2009]  
A large rice-husk power generation plant coming up at the north-western Thakurgaon district of Bangladesh will generate 400 KWh of electricity mainly for small and medium sized rice mills. The project  ...More
Tags: Bangladesh     India     China     IDCOL     SEAL    
Australia Outperformed Rest of Advanced Nations [14 Dec 2009]  
The Australian Treasurer Wayne Swan claimed that his country continued to outperform most other nations even as the impact of the global economic crisis eroded almost all economies. He made this state  ...More
Tags: Australia    economy    ABS    RBA    Reserve Bank    
Cameroon Pet Fishers Start to Earn More via WB-backed Project [01 Apr 2010]  
A sustainable aquaculture program developed by the World Fish Centre (WFC) with the sponsorship from the World Bank (WB) is bringing about a change among the ornamental fishing communities of Cameroon  ...More
Tags: Cameroon    fish    WFC    World Bank    Africa    Gulf    
Dubai Realty Firms Squeeze Clients for Mirages [12 Apr 2010]  
Until the global credit crisis rocked the Dubai real estate projects, way back in 2008, people continued to invest in these projects blindly without any logical personal debt management. The fallout –  ...More
Tags: Dubai    PJSC    UAE    Deutsche Bank    
Financial and Banking Methodology Helps Cambodia to Sustain [10 Jun 2010]  
Cambodia's World Bank country manager Qimiao Fan on Tuesday said that Cambodia’s financial and banking regulations have assisted the country to sustain during the tumultuous times of global economic u  ...More
Tags: Cambodia     World Bank     CDCF     Finance    
Syria, Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan Sign Quadripartite FTA [03 Aug 2010]  
Turkey will join an economic bloc comprising of the Middle Eastern states such as Syria, Lebanon and Jordan ahead of the protracted accession to the EU. Last weekend, the four nations jointly agreed t  ...More
Tags: Syria     Turkey     Lebanon     Jordan     Trade    
Salvador Takes Diplomatic Route to Resolve Dominican Export Ban [23 Sep 2010]  
Two senior ministers from El Salvador are touring the Dominican Republic in order to address problems related to the exports with the Caribbean country. The Salvadoran Ministers of Economy, Hector Dad  ...More
Tags: El Salvador     Economy     Dominican Export     Ban    
Bangladesh to Gain from Lankan Absence in EU Apparel Market [08 Oct 2010]  
Sri Lanka being excised from the Generalised System of Preferences Plus (GSP+) status from the EU is reported to allow Bangladesh to exploit the space as it is a competing entity to the Lankan ready-m  ...More
Tags: GSP     EU     Apparel Market     Bangladesh    
Anti-Iran Camp Launches Media Blitzkrieg to Bilk Iran-Lebanon Ties [12 Oct 2010]  
The President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is making two-day visit to Lebanon starting tomorrow, the first since he took office in 2005. His trip has already run into the disinformation campaign by the  ...More
Tags: Iran     Ahmadinejad     US     Lebanon     Democracy    
Swiss Banks Thrive despite Reversals in Client Secrecy [18 Oct 2010]  
Latest report indicates Swiss private banks resisted client secrecy censures by the US, France and Germany to attract more than 50bn francs ($53bn) of assets since the end of 2007. According to data c  ...More
Tags: Swiss     UBS     Francs     Bloomberg     Banking    
Hawala Scare Grips Malaysia Flight of Capital Hurts Economy [28 Dec 2010]  
A recent surge in illegal money transfers to the tune of several billions of USD each year has become a serious concern of the Malaysian central bank as it is feared that it may negatively impact the  ...More
Tags: Central Bank     Malaysia     Hawala     Money Transfer    
Turkey Backs Inclusion of Iraq in Regional Free Trade [18 Jan 2011]  
The Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu during his recent visit to Iraq stated that his country wanted Iraq to be included in the regional free trade zone. Speaking at a meeting in Baghdad, Davut  ...More
Tags: Iraq    Turkey    Syria    Jordan    Lebanon    FTA    
China's Jan exports rise 38 percent to $150.73 [15 Feb 2011]  
China's exports rose by 37.7 percent year-on-year to $150.73 billion in January boosted by busy shipments ahead of the nation's traditional Spring Festival, according to the General Administration of  ...More
Tags: GDP    Japanese Cabinet Office    World Bank    
Food prices push 44m into poverty: World Bank [17 Feb 2011]  
Rising food prices have pushed about 44 million people into poverty in developing countries since last June, the World Bank warned.

Food costs are continuing to rise to near 2008 levels, when  ...More
Tags: World Bank    Food Price Index    food inflation    anti-poverty    
Government encouraging exports to contain rising CAD [02 Mar 2011]  
Worried over the rising current account deficit, the government today said that it is providing incentives to exporters to encourage overseas shipment to bridge the rising gap.

"We are concern  ...More
Tags: GDP    CAD    Reserve Bank    fiscal deficit    
World Bank chief urges new role in Middle East [24 Mar 2011]  
The World Bank is rethinking its role in the Middle East and North Africa to tackle economic and social problems that sparked political unrest. The poverty-fighting institution needs to find some way  ...More
Tags: Robert Zoellick    World Bank conference    IMF     neo-liberal economic policies    
Banana Plantations in Philippine and Exports at Risk due to Virus in Southeast Asia [28 Nov 2011]  
Thousand hectares of banana plantations in the Philippines a disease that has ravaged banana plantations across Southeast Asia could wipe out the Philippine industry in three years unless the governme  ...More
Tags: Banana Plantations Philippine    
World Bank approves USD 109 million grant for the state of Rajasthan in India [30 Mar 2012]  
The World Bank has approved a USD 109 million grant for Rajasthan to promote water-efficient agriculture through sustainable and efficient use of resources in the desert state. The fund, approved yest  ...More
Tags: World Bank India    
China- the World’s favourite Piggy Bank [29 Jul 2013]  
In the backdrop of a ‘supposedly’ slowing economy, there is some good news coming China’s way. This Asian superpower is apparently the World’s most favourite economy to invest in- attracting an astoun  ...More
Tags: China Piggy Bank