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...Currently, only about 2 per cent of overall R&D spending goes to low-carbon projects....
...He looks at the cost of prohibition in Mexico, where more than 60,000 people have died since former president Felipe Calderón launched an offensive on organised crime eight years ago, and he makes the obligatory...
...Three years before the advent of the commercial internet, as part of the H.R. 5334, the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992, Congress created 18 U.S.C. § 1960, a part of the criminal code that...
...It relies on funding from bodies such as the R&A and the European Tour and revenue from clubs that pay to join its programmes....
...Itaú-Unibanco’s first-quarter net income rose 9.3 per cent to R$3.53bn ($2.24bn) from R$3.23bn in the same period of 2010....
...Investigators found 70 spent cartridges from R-15 and AK-47 automatic rifles, the drug-cartels’ weapons of choice....
...Mr Cruz points to the $260m issue by Grupo R unit RDS....
...After rising steadily from R$53.6bn ($27.5bn) in 2003 – Abdib’s figures are at constant 2007 prices – to R$72.3bn last year, investment is set to reach R$84.4bn this year and R$86.6bn in 2009....
...But Mr Calderón should not assume that the worst is over....
...In the first three weeks of this year, foreign investors withdrew R$4.5bn from the São Paulo Stock Exchange....
...The currency slumped from R$1.84 to the US dollar on July 23 to R$1.95 at Friday’s close....
...But questions were raised over how he could afford this on his salary of R$12,000 ($6,282) a month – less than the monthly payments at their peak....
...The scandal is part of a widespread malaise that, according to a recent study, costs Brazil about R$1.5bn a year. This is at best a guess....
...Last week it announced plans to hire 46,600 new public sector workers at an annual cost of R$1.3bn, just the kind of spending it must cut rather than increase. The auto industry faces another problem....
...) for industry and a new fund for popular housing of a further R$15bn....
...The offer includes just R$285m in cash and it is unclear where TGV will get even this amount....
...There, Mr Calderón won only in Yucatan....
...In a Datafolha poll at the end of May, voters were divided into those earning up to R$700 (US$306) a month (about half the population), between R$700 and R$1,750 (another third of the population), and above...
...of only R$400,000....
...But now Mr Calderon has received a strong dose of his own medicine: Mr Lopez Obrador recently accused Mr Calderon’s brother-in-law of having won juicy state contracts during Mr Calderon’s time at the energy...
...From R$2.06 to the US dollar just two weeks ago, the currency closed on Friday at R$2.20....
...Calderón’s bounce back Is Mexico’s presidential election coming to life again? Until about a week ago it seemed all but over....
...in October 2002 to R$2.15 on Friday (and a high of R$2.10 on March 16)....
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