SANTIAGO Women's Nike Air Force 1 Low GS Pink , Aug. 3 (Xinhua) -- Latin America should see low but positive economic expansion in 2017, following two years of negative growth, the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) said Thursday.
The region "will grow 1.1 percent on average in 2017 after two consecutive years of contraction," the UN agency forecast.
ECLAC based its positive forecast on "an international context that shows improved growth expectations despite geopolitical risks, and better prices for the commodities that the region exports."
Presenting the annual report titled "Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean 2017" here at a press conference nike air force 270 womens , ECLAC said factors driving growth in the region include moderate recovery of the global economy, a slight rebound in the volume of international trade, and increased price levels for basic products.
Improvement in investment and greater dynamism in private consumption were also mentioned in the report.
The report breaks down growth by region, forecasting gross domestic product (GDP) in South America to grow 0.6 percent this year; in Central America and Mexico, 2.5 percent on average nike air force1 flyknit womens , thanks to an increase in remittances and improved growth expectations for the United States, Mexico's main trading partner; and in the English- and Dutch-speaking Caribbean, a 1.2 percent growth, following a -0.8 percent contraction in 2016.
All countries in the region will see positive growth, except troubled Venezuela nike air force1 mid womens , where the GDP "is seen falling -7.2 percent," and Saint Lucia and Suriname, two countries in the Caribbean.
ECLAC also urged countries to pursue "macroeconomic policies to invigorate long-term growth" and bring about "necessary structural change in the region's economies."
Those policies should include "countercyclical frameworks for fiscal policy that defend and promote public and private investment," as well as credit stabilization, and "monetary policy to support investment growth" that goes beyond instruments such as interest rates nike air force1 blue womens , ECLAC Executive Secretary Alicia Barcena said.
Despite the rebound in economic growth during the first quarter of 2017, the employment picture looks bleak.
The report forecasts "The rate of urban unemployment is forecast to rise from 8.9 percent in 2016 to 9.4 percent in 2017," putting "the cumulative increase in the urban unemployment rate at 2.5 percentage points between 2014 and 2017," the report said.
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MOSCOW, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- The Russian Foreign Ministry has launched the Chinese version of its website nike air force1 black womens , spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Thursday.
"This move is in line with the goal of developing bilateral relations, which, as you know, is a comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination that has already reached an all-time high," Zakharova said at a news briefing.
She said the ministry's press service would select priority news and pictures for readers with the aim of "increasing the accessibility of information placed on the Foreign Ministry's portal."
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The ministry's website is currently in Russian, English, Chinese, French, Spanish and German.
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US e-commerce giant Amazon announced Wednesday at the on-going Beijing International Book Fair (BIBF) that it will begin selling the English edition of renowned Chinese writer Jia Pingwa's Happy Dreams on its 14 platforms around the globe starting on October 1.
A member of the Chinese Culture Translation and Studies Support Network (CCTSS), Amazon said at the ceremony that the book's print and digital versions would be made available for pre-order later that day to readers in 183 countries and regions around the world.
This is the first time that the US e-commerce site has held a global launch ceremony for the launch of an English edition of a Chinese author's work, according to a press release from CCTSS sent to the Global Times Wednesday.
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The English translation for Happy Dreams, a 2007 novel by the prize-winning Chinese author about a migrant worker named Liu Gaoxing from the northern part of Northwest China's Shaanxi Province, was headed by Amazon's cross-cultural publishing department Amazon Crossing.
The book was translated by UK-based prize-winning literary translator Nicky Harman.
HONG KONG, March 26 (Xinhua) -- The voting for the fifth-term chief executive of China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) started on Sunday.