All posts tagged "Economic Growth"

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  Ponce Mayor seeks to improve business environment after Maria

  With U.S. Chamber of Commerce, promotes business is open in island’s southern town

  • Posted March 1, 2018
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  Economists, demographers present grim picture to Puerto Rico fiscal board

  Marked economic and population contractions after Hurricane María projected

  • Posted November 17, 2017
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  Survey of economists finds optimism about growth prospects

  They expect gross domestic product growth of 2.% to 3% in the next four quarters

  • Posted April 24, 2017
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  Eurozone’s economic growth near 6-year high: New survey

  LONDON – Businesses across the 19-country eurozone, and particularly in France, are increasingly upbeat and hiring more people despite big uncertainties – including France’s high-stakes presidential election. A closely watched survey of some 5,000 companies indicates that...

  • Posted March 24, 2017
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  China Unveils Plan to Cut Corporate Debt with Stock Swaps

  BEIJING — Chinese authorities unveiled plans Monday to let companies give equity in themselves to banks to pay down soaring debt levels that economists warn might hamper the country’s already slowing growth. Companies that show “good prospects”...

  • Posted October 10, 2016
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  Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa to Fall to 1.6 Percent

  KAMPALA, Uganda — A new World Bank report says economic growth across sub-Saharan Africa is projected to fall to 1.6 percent in 2016, the lowest level in more than two decades. Growth was 3 percent last year....

  • Posted September 29, 2016