Malawi: Government expenditure down 24 percent
Government expenditure dropped in May, for the first time in 2020, by 23.8 percent at the back of a decline in both recurrent and development expenditure, Reserve Bank of Malawi ...
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Top two economies urged to collaborate amid pandemic
Progress toward shortening the period of suffering induced by the coronavirus could be made if China and the United States were to collaborate in ramping up pandemic control efforts and ...
World Bank: Pandemic, Recession: The Global Economy in Crisis
It will also do lasting damage to labor productivity and potential output. The immediate policy priorities are to alleviate the human costs and atenuate the near-term economic losses. Once the ...
Coronavirus pandemic boosts online trade in Africa
Shamim Sserunjogi and her brother Moses were forced to become digital entrepreneurs when COVID-19 restrictions in Uganda forced everyone to remain at home. "He had a motorcycle, I had a plan. That's ...
South Africa: Union takes Motshekga to court for reopening schools amid virus pandemic
Johannesburg - A last-ditch attempt to stop schools reopening next week set is to play out in court as a union representing more than 27000 teachers challenges Basic Education Minister ...
Rwanda: How government plans to revive mining sector
That is true for the most part because the highly infectious disease has had potentially severe consequences on almost every sector than what other crises have caused in the past. ...
Russia Hits Record fatalities: 9,623 to 124,054 cases in last 24 hours
The death toll nationwide rose to 1,222 after 57 people died in the last 24 hours, Russia's coronavirus crisis response centre said on Saturday. Concern was growing in Moscow that ...
