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...Brazil’s industry ministry has in the past six months opened at least half a dozen probes into alleged dumping of products from China’s manufacturing industries, ranging from metal sheets and pre-painted...
...of Mining and Metals, a global industry association....
...cent — from cash-rich local businesses in April....
...“To our knowledge, a lot of the cable that is stolen is used for illegal electrical connections in the townships,” Quintin Starkey, chair of South Africa’s Metal Recyclers Association, told me....
...“If you could get away with not paying any of your workers, your books would look a lot better,” she says. “We’re getting away with not paying nature, the ultimate worker.”...
...The supply of workers has been hit by deaths and long Covid....
...The male-dominated metals and financial services industries have a long way to go to improve diversity, she says....
...The Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers — Transportation Division and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen have said they will not accept any proposal from the railways that...
...Everything here is proudly organic, local and GMO-free. There are a lot of tables beautifully piled with vegetables and absolutely no aisles where boxed goods would be sold....
...This applies to energy too — what was local is now often international. Often, these enterprises are in rural locations lacking mains gas, so many use bottled liquefied petroleum gas....
...Local authorities redesigned town centres to favour walking and cycling over polluting private car access, and gave more space on streets to local businesses....
...I know from reading Daltrey’s entertaining autobiography, Thanks a Lot Mr Kibblewhite, that he did actually build this network of lakes himself; a former sheet-metal worker, he’s always been pretty handy...
...gold medals in 73 successive years....
...But Kibsa says that three months ago he was invited to three rounds of talks in Kaya, where, he says, military and government officials, international NGO workers and traditional leaders were also present...
...“The real, local rum bars. They have the bright colours, that galvanised metal, it makes you feel good.”...
...In a country of plenty, hunger has risen as inflation — in no small part driven by higher prices for Brazilian goods on international markets — pushes everyday items out of reach....
...A recent study by the CFA Institute, the group for investment professionals, found that 73 per cent of UK investment professionals used ESG ratings in company analysis....
...A 10 per cent jump in the crude price raises inflation indices by between 0.5 to 1 per cent, depending on the country, according to a recent paper from the International Association for Energy Economics....
...Jan Eeckhout, research professor of economics at Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona: No Noble Francis, economics director at Construction Products Association: No....
...Under the new French legal framework, which was introduced last year, companies outline their purpose, link it to ESG objectives and incorporate it in their articles of association....
...Donato Paolo Mancini in Rome 73....
...“My factory restarted operations [in] February and Yiwu’s international trade market [a major wholesale centre] has also reopened,” she says. “So far half of our workers and salesmen are back at work....
...For now Anatevkans will have to do so with their rabbi — but no mayor....
...Shoppers in China, the Netherlands and Scandinavia can once again buy their orcs, in line with local guidance, and other stores will reopen as local restrictions are lifted....
...There’s no running water, save for a communal pump, no proper sewerage system and no electricity....
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