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EMA BusinessPlus Magazine - International Trade Columnist Thomas Manning
Since it was first established by Mike Moore as ‘TradeCom’ in 1986, New Zealand Trade & Enterprise (NZTE) has played a vital part in the quadrupling of New Zealand’s export trade (from 1986’s $21bn to 2019’s $83.6bn) and in the post-COVID-19 world, NZTE is poised to play an even more critically important role.....For full Article Please Click Here
IMF predicts 9.4% contraction in Latin America and the Caribbean, largely due to the economies of Mexico and Brazil, both of which are struggling to contain the Covid-19 pandemic.....
Brazil has signed a $127m agreement to produce a promising experimental vaccine developed by Oxford Unoversity and AstraZeneca to fight the Covid-19 pandemic.....
S&P Global says the recession would be uneven across the Asia Pacific region and New Zealand would be among the countries to escape with less permanent damage....
The inhabitants of the Andean heights of Bolivia and Peru have resisted the new coronavirus better than their compatriots of the low lands, which has called experts' attention.....
Women are dominating the Chilean film industry more than ever, replicating what is happening across most of Latin America. In Bolivia, 85% of the producers are said to be women and in Mexico, nearly half of the audiovisual workforce is female. Of the 10 key Chilean titles participating at the Marché du Film Online Producers Network Spotlight this year, eight are produced by women.....
The total fortune of the 15 wealthiest Argentines has been estimated at 26.85 billion dollars, falling just shy of the 27.679 billion dollars currently in the Central Bank’s foreign reserve account, according to a list of the country’s richest people published recently by the local edition of Forbes magazine.
The difference being this money is real whereas no one believes the Argentine Central Bank actually has 27 Billion Dollars in Cash. It is a little like the US gold reserves. It only exists in someone’s mind. Ask Germany who would like its Gold Reserves stored in the US Treasury returned and cannot get them....
On May 8th, 1916, there was a large wedding party in Buenos Aires.
Two offspring of the aristocracy, Félix Saturnino de Álzaga Unzué, 31, and Elena Peña Unzué, 24, were married with huge pomp and ceremony in the Church of St. Augustine.
As corresponding to a wedding of that rank, the couple received innumerable gifts. But nothing was like the gift of the groom to his new wife: a superb palace a few meters from the exclusive Avenue Alvear, in the neighborhood of Retiro/Recoleta....