Lima, Nov. 30 (ANDINA).- The China Development Bank (CDB) is interested in supporting infrastructure and agricultural projects in Peru as part of a cooperation agreement recently signed with Peruvian state-bank Banco de la Nación (BN).
"China Development Bank is very interested in infrastructure and agricultural projects that involve development of rural communities in Peru," BN general manager Julio del Castillo told Andina news agency...
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BRIC Shoppers Will “Rescue World” Says Goldman Sachs Economist – reports Bloomberg's William Mellor and Le-Min Lim
Dec. 1 (Bloomberg) -- The best hope to keep the global economy growing may be people like Wei Yufang. A peasant who farms a small plot beside the mud-brown Huaihe River in central China, Wei has a modest dream: to buy an air conditioner to give her family relief from the dusty heat that each summer envelops Xiaogang (Little Hill) village in Anhui province.
With economies from the U.S. to Japan in recession, Wei and the other 2.8 billion people in Brazil, Russia, India and China may provide the consumer demand needed to counter the slump.
Jim O’Neill, the Goldman Sachs Group Inc. economist who in 2001 coined the acronym BRIC from the initials of the four big emerging economies, says the faster growth investors have come to expect from these countries will survive this crisis. O’Neill, who is based in London, says the citizens of the BRIC nations are poised to spend more. “The BRIC consumer is going to rescue the world,” he says...
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China, India Drop Inflation Controls as Economic Growth Slows – reports Bloomberg's Nipa Piboontanasawat and Thomas Abraham
Dec. 1 (Bloomberg) -- China and India lifted controls targeting prices of products from vegetable oil to natural rubber after inflation eased in the world’s fastest-growing major economies.
China today stopped requiring companies to seek approval for some food-price increases, the government said. India dropped a ban on futures trading in natural rubber, soybean oil, potatoes and chickpeas, the consumer affairs ministry said.
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“For China, the main focus of the government is to boost economic growth and prevent deflation,” said Wang Qing, chief China economist at Morgan Stanley in Hong Kong.
In India, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh dropped a seven- month ban on futures trading in natural rubber, soybean oil, potatoes and chickpeas...
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China's Manufacturing Contracts by Record on Exports – reports Bloomberg's Nipa Piboontanasawat
Dec. 1 (Bloomberg) -- China’s manufacturing shrank by the most on record and export orders plunged, adding to evidence that recessions in the U.S., Europe and Japan are dragging down the world’s fastest-growing major economy.
The Purchasing Managers’ Index fell to a seasonally adjusted 38.8 in November from 44.6 in October, the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing said today in an e- mailed statement. A second PMI, released by CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets, also showed a record contraction...
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Following visit Russian leader calls for bigger LATAM role
Russian president Dmitri Medvedev said he was very satisfied with his Latinamerican tour which took him to Peru, Brazil, Venezuela and Cuba because it enabled to re-establish strong links with the region.
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“Latinamerica is a region developing fast, which has a concentration of significant intellectual and natural resources, and most important the peoples of the region want to cooperate with Russia”, added Medvedev
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“We are prepared to increase political, economic and military cooperation with Latinamerican countries and their leaders, particularly in a world with so many security problems and challenges.” ...
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