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...African governments can access a $2bn vaccine facility provided by the Cairo-based African Export-Import Bank as well as funding from the World Bank....
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...But Alam said the fuel import and electric-vehicle policies only existed on paper: “The government has not taken practical steps to implement them.”...
...“It’s not like the standard V-shaped recession in emerging markets, such as in Indonesia in 1998 where it’s only a year and a half of real economic hardship,” he said....
...Imports rose 15 per cent, and exports almost 29 per cent, and the trade gap is widening....
...“The main object of the borrower is the fishery activity of tuna and other fish resources, including the fishing, holding, processing, storage, handling, transit, sale, import and export of such products...
...The largest US shale fields — Bakken, Permian and Eagle Ford — were equivalent to the world’s seventh-largest oil producing nation, he said, dubbing them “Cowboyistan”....
...Imports rose at a faster rate, 9.4%, and the trade deficit was Y879.9bn, the biggest since comparable records began in 1979....
...Its energy import bill, with its reliance on imported liquefied natural gas, was about $9.5bn in 2012 and is expected to leap to $13bn-$15bn this year....
...Shell confirmed it recently applied for licences to export domestic crude. “Crude oil trades on a global scale and imports/exports will follow supply and demand,” it said....
...China’s April exports were 4.9% higher, year-on-year, while imports rose 0.3%. Analysts had expected 8.5% and 11% growth, respectively, reports MarketWatch....
...Meanwhile, imports rose 9.8 per cent to Y5,705.2bn, a smaller increase from May’s 12.3 per cent rise....
...They want to reduce the economy’s reliance on consumption by promoting what President Barack Obama calls a “post-bubble growth model” based in part on exports and manufacturing....
...After a century of haemorrhaging people, Ireland started to import labour....
...The Baltic Dry index is apparently sustaining its first consecutive advance in weeks on expectations that an Obama stimulus will boost commodity imports/exports....
...We lived by very complex import and export policies, a very complex industrial licensing regime....
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