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...Just $830mn of domestic institutional and banking capital in Africa is invested in climate solutions and clean energy, a fraction of the $1.4tn assets managed by local institutions including pension funds...
...There are about 1,500 nominally Russian soldiers based in the enclave, the residue of a peacekeeping force deployed after the secessionist war in 1992, which claimed 700 lives, but most are local recruits...
...It has increased a windfall tax on banks to 50 per cent and transferred revenues from a 1.5 per cent supplemental income tax from local to central government....
...Portugal is in a relatively strong fiscal position and recorded a budget surplus in the first half of this year equal to 1.1 per cent of gross domestic product....
...So there’s no reason to speak about excess or inefficiency in public spending”....
...Defined benefit — where employers guarantee an inflation-linked pension for life — has been replaced with defined contribution — a glorified savings plan, with no guarantees....
...He even has plans for a military-run passenger airline....
...Samii remembers his father poring over architectural plans to work out engineering failures....
...Cruise alone plans to have 1mn robotaxis on the road by 2030....
...Laurent Berger, the leader of the moderate CFDT union, urged the government on Friday to “hit pause” on its plans, saying the spiralling violence on the fringes of demonstrations was worrying....
...Yet his net pay of €1,500 per month is stagnant while prices are rising. “We get the same money here today that I remember my mother getting 25 years ago.”...
...In France, the unions are overseeing further protests against President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reforms....
...Stephen Bush There’s also . . . presumably there are equal pay problems like this bubbling under both in other councils and also in local government pension schemes, right?...
...Nick Bosanquet: No: growth 1 per cent or less: danger of recession high. Will lag other economies....
...As well as junior doctors and Amazon staff, over 70,000 members of the Universities and College Union begin three days of industrial action over pay, pensions and working conditions....
...My daughter’s friend there plans to participate till Saturday: “Then I’ll take my weekend.” This is no way to run a country....
...He now likely faces a no-confidence motion next week and another nationwide protest from unions on Thursday....
...Still stuck in limbo, Fortenova has hatched a plan for investors to take over from the Russians and clean up the mess....
...In Italy, IVF is only legally available to heterosexual married couples — restrictions the government has no plans to ease....
...Wednesday UK, more than 1,600 Unite union members at the West Midlands, North West and North East ambulance service trusts walk out over pay....
...“We have a crisis of low pay in the civil service,” said Mark Serwotka, PCS general secretary, arguing that the union had no choice but to launch “sustained” industrial action, given government plans to...
...It actually, well, it exists alright so they can go, “We totally do have a costed plan because we’ve got this extra 1.7bn we do by doing this”....
...SOC Investment Group, which works with union-sponsored pension funds holding about 1.8 million shares of SBUX, has called on Starbucks to review its succession-planning policy....
...over jobs and pensions....
...In 1988 it began selling “Peace Pops” as part of a bid to divert 1 per cent of the US defence budget to cultural and economic exchanges with the Soviet Union....
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