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• Forecast

  Airbus sees demand for over 27,800 aircraft in the next 20 years

  19 septembre 2011 Temoignages.re

  As a result, by 2030 the global passenger fleet will more than double from today's 15,000 aircraft to 31,500. This will include some 27,800 new aircraft deliveries of which 10,500 will be needed for replacing older less fuel efficient aircraft. The trend towards larger aircraft will continue, in order for the aviation sector to keep pace with future growth in demand. People need and want to fly more than ever before. Over the next 20 years the aviation sector is expected to remain (...)

• According China.org

  Volkswagen planning new Guangzhou assembly plant

  1 February 2010

  The source denied recent reports that the Guangzhou plant will produce cars under Volkswagen's Spanish brand Seat, underscoring only Volkswagen brand vehicles will be made at the new facility when it begins operation in 2013. The insider declined to comment on investment levels or other details of the plan. Since it began operations in China in 1984, Volkswagen has mainly focused on the north and east of the nation, while Japanese brands Toyota, Honda and Nissan have long prevailed (...)

• A growth powered by rising commodity prices and good policies

  Africa to register 4.3% economic growth in 2010

  26 January 2010

  Presenting a World Economic Situation and Prospects report for 2010, Adam Elhiraika, ECA senior economic affairs officer, said the expected recovery in the global economy would have an overall positive effect on African economies. From a negative growth of 2.2 percent last year, the world economy is expected o grow by 2.4 percent this year, which the ECA official said would strongly stimulate demand for most African exports, particularly commodities. In 2009, hard hit by the global (...)

• Four sugar companies have a total installed production capacity of 400,000 tonnes

  Tanzania : the forecasts are 290,000 tonnes of sugar

  28 September 2009

  Speaking to East African Business Week in Dar es Salaam last week, Mr Matthew Kombe, Director General of Tanzania's Sugar Board said the country will produce 290,000 tonnes of sugar compared with 279, 851 tonnes in 2008/09. (…) "The forecasts are that we will produce about 290,000 tonnes of sugar which is comparable to what we produced last year due to weather patterns which have remained the same," said Mr Kombe. He added that the increasing in acreage under sugarcane and the (...)

• As G20 prepares to meet

  UN calls on donors to meet aid commitments : where are the dollars ?

  25 September 2009

  Although development assistance rose to record levels in 2008, donors are falling short by $35 billion per year on the 2005 pledge on annual aid flows made by the Group of Eight in Gleneagles, and by $20 billion a year on aid to Africa, according to UN estimates. The report on Strengthening the Global Partnership for Development in a Time of Crisis was written by the Secretary-General's MDG Gap Task Force, which brings together more than 20 UN agencies, the IMF, the World Bank, WTO (...)

• Cairns Group Ministerial Meeting

  WTO : US and India agree to resume Doha Round said Pascal Lamy

  11 June 2009

  Against the backdrop of global economic slowdown, countries should jointly resist the increasing trend of trade protectionism in the agriculture sector, said the communique issued by the meeting. The communique demanded the US and EU nations remove relevant subsidies in the shortest timeframe to show leadership in eliminating protectionism. On June 9 WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy said that countries including the US and India conducted multilateral negotiations at the meeting and (...)

• G-20 summit : SA President joins world leaders

  2 April 2009

  South Africa's participation at the London G20 Summit takes place within the con text of its continued commitment to the reformation of the global financial arch i tecture. Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma had previously indicated that "a s they look at packages to salvage their own economies, G20 countries must be thinking about the economies of developing countries, part icularly in Africa." As the only African country in the G20, South Africa has consistently (...)

• The United States between hegemony and debt

  22 September 2008

  To grab the Iraqi oil, they begin a military offensive on the pretext that the Government has chemical bombs. Summoned by the public to present evidence, George Bush will recognize that there were none. Nevertheless, he continues to destroy. 4000 Americans killed, 600,000 Iraqi civilians dead. He voted in Congress hundreds of billions of dollars to continue. To control apparatus of the Third World States and the content of their policy, they require good governance, elections, economic (...)

• The dollar: A weapon of economical war

  Financial crisis: global marketplace restructured at the USA ’s profit

  22 September 2008 Manuel MARCHAL

  Crise financière: un marché mondial restructuré au profit des Etats-Unis

• Where will stop the monetary war launched by Washington?

  Financial crisis: a way to break the opposition of U.S. hegemony

  20 September 2008 Manuel MARCHAL

  Crise financière: un moyen de casser la concurrence à l'hégémonie US

• Washington benefits from the financial crisis to liquidate its debt at lower costs

  Financial crisis :
  Where will stop the monetary war launched by the United States ?

  19 September 2008 Manuel MARCHAL

  Nouvelle étape dans la guerre monétaire lancée par les Etats-Unis