China offers Africa $66b in fresh funding, promises a million jobs
BEIJING — President Xi Jinping pledged on Thursday (Sept 5) to step up China's support across debt-laden Africa with funding of nearly US$51 billion (S$66...
Oil Sinks as Weak US Jobs Report Adds to Concerns About Demand
(Bloomberg) -- Oil posted its biggest weekly drop in 11 months as a weak US jobs report added to concerns about tepid demand in...
Income inequality: On the ILO’s World Employment and Social Outlook study
The ILO’s World Employment and Social Outlook study (September) has definitively linked declining trends in labour’s income share of total income within nations to...
Researchers with a large network of unique collaborators have longer careers, finds study – Physics World
Researchers with a large network of unique collaborators have longer careers, finds study – Physics World
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$50 billion, a million jobs and a red carpet welcome: China woos Africa as U.S. struggles to keep up
To that end, Xi said Thursday that China would further open its market to African agricultural products, and that products from most of the...