The member of the World Bank Group is providing a US$ 2 million loan to the Lebanese Association for Development. The amount will be used to expand small business and women-run companies.
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The event will take place in October, with backing from the Brazilian Embassy in Beirut. The Levantine Basin boasts potential in oil and gas exploration, but the territory is under dispute.
Brazil’s debt declined for the second straight month due to maturation of bonds. During the period, US$ 1.65 billion were saved, according to the National Treasury Secretariat.
Foreign sales of capital goods dropped in the month, but keep growing year-to-date. The components industry’s performance was one of the main culprits.
The secretary of International Agribusiness Relations at Brazil’s Agriculture Ministry hopes that by the end of 2014, Saudi Arabia and Japan will resume importing bovine meat from Brazil.
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The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has informed that the average daily number of people leaving Iraq for Jordan has grown from 65 in June and July to 120 in August and September.
Deficit is running at US$ 42 million in the third week of September. In comparison to September 2013, exports declined and imports increased.
The Abu Dhabi-based airline has hired sales representatives in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, and in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, to propel its business in the south, north, northeast and midwest of Brazil.
The event kicks off next Wednesday and will include 350 productions made in 60 different countries. At least six Arab films are in the program. Palestinian filmmaker Najwa Najjar will make a guest apperance.
The Abu Dhabi-based airline is using the funds to purchase aircraft and invest in companies it holds stakes in.
The tax break may entail import tax exemption for models fuelled by combustion and electrical power. The tax rate will hinge of each vehicle’s energy efficiency.
The forecast concerns the next 12 months and was issued by companies attending the matchmaking event held during exhibition Rio Oil & Gas, in Rio de Janeiro.
The Abu Dhabi-based holding company grossed US$ 4.35 billion in H1 this year. Operations carried out in the period include the acquisition of a stake in Brazil’s Porto Sudeste.
