Production increased year-on-year in April. In April from March, however, it slid by 0.4%.
Buoyed by agriculture and livestock farming, Brazil’s Gross Domestic Product increased for the first time after two straight years of quarter-on-quarter drops. In the 12 years through March, GDP slid by 2.3%.
The photo exhibit ‘Lebanon: World Heritage’ will run from this Thursday (1) through October in a number of locations throughout the city. An opening ceremony will take place on the 19th at city theater.
The Jordanian airline carried 1.13 million passengers from January to April this year.
Export revenues totaled USD 627.78 million in April. In the first four months, sales to the external market registered a positive trend.
Brazil’s federal government will make the amount available via loans to smallholder farmers this year and the next.
The unemployment rate reached 13.6% in the three-month period ending in April, according to data made public by the statistics institute IBGE. The number of unemployed rose 23.1% year-over-year.
Industry association Abimóvel said the furniture and décor industry show in Dubai had great results, and is already considering joining the next edition as well.
Entitled ‘Viewpoints on Asylum,’ the event will be held in Curitiba, Porto Alegre, Rio de Janeiro, Brasília and São Paulo starting June 1.
The shipping of logs to Guaíba, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, drove throughput at the seaport in the first four months of the year to 81% of the total volume in 2016.
Digital foreign trade platform created by Brazilian firm Intradebook will be used in United Nations projects focused on female entrepreneurs. The solution helps small and medium-sized companies to export.
An indicator from think tank Fundação Getulio Vargas increased by 9.3 points in May from April, after dropping for several months on end.
The bank will offer its support to the Tunisia Entrepreneur Financial Center. IBRD will guide the Arab country’s center on how to increase its loans and develop products to small firms.
Roughly 660,000 foreign travelers visited the country in the month as per the latest figures released by the Egyptian state-run statistics agency.
