Value of G20 merchandise trade at new high in Q2 2021
G20 merchandise exports and imports increased in Q2 2021, but showing a slowdown compared with those reported one month earlier, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) reported.
US billionaires’ wealth increases in pandemic times
US billionaires increased their wealth by 1.8 trillion dollars in Covid-19 times, which evidences the flaws in the country's economic and fiscal systems.
According to the Institute for Policy...
Covid-19 has worsened inequalities in Chilean society
The huge gap between social classes, which is typical in neoliberal Chile, has further widened during the Covid-19 pandemic, so the richest have become richer and the poorest have become poorer.
WTO confirms world trade recovery
Confirming the strength of the global trade recovery, the Goods Trade Barometer record high level on Wednesday, according to the World Trade Organization (WTO).
The latest barometer reading of...
Spain received 9 billion euros in UE aid
The European Union (EU) sent 9 billion euros to Spain as a first aid package to compensate the huge losses caused by Covid-19.
This sum is part of the...
Tourist agency boosts travels in Central America
The Central America Tourism Agency (CATA) will put in place a mechanism in an effort to speed up the reactivation of the travel industry in the region.
A report...
Mexican money remittances exceed oil revenues and foreign investment
Mexicans living abroad sent remittances for amounts greater than oil sales and foreign direct investment in the first half of this year, the Bank of Mexico reported.
According to...
Bolivia boosts lithium and potassium sales to the world market
The company Yacimientos de Litio Bolivianos (YLB) plans to increase sales of lithium carbonate and potassium chloride to the world market and generate revenues exceeding 17 million dollars, the ABI agency reported...
Cuba promotes diversification of economic management forms
The transformations and improvement that Cuba is carrying out today for the renewal of its economic scenario, constitute the beginning of the diversification and expansion of state companies and other forms of...
Paraguayans link wealth of rich with corruption
For the 76.3 percent of citizens recently surveyed in Paraguay, the origin of the fortune of the richest in the country is corruption, according to the newspaper Ultima Hora in Saturday's edition.
