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Hassan Food is responsible for helping Qatar achieve food self-sufficiency. “We are finalizing several memorandums of understanding with well-known Russian companies and plan to sign these agreements during the SPIEF. They will open up new investment opportunities, and we will start supplying some strategic products from Russia to the Qatari …

“To date, more than 320 agreements are being prepared for the signing at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum,” the CEO of the Roscongress Foundation, Alexander Stuglev, told Russia-24 TV channel.“These are agreements to be concluded between federal authorities and regions, between regions and companies of various kinds of investment …

Last week the European Commissioners announced a legislative proposal to make EU foreign-investment rules more stringent and address the alleged trade harm from foreign subsidies.  The move, which Commissioner for the Internal Market Thierry Breton has claimed would ensure that “no one can undermine the level playing field and Europe’s …

In a harshly worded statement on Thursday, China’s economic planner, the National Development and Reform Commission, said the China-Australia Strategic Economic Dialogue would be paused indefinitely. “Recently, some Australian Commonwealth Government officials launched a series of measures to disrupt the normal exchanges and cooperation between China and Australia out of …

According to the forum’s official website, the key topic will be “A collective reckoning of the new global economic reality.” More than a hundred events are planned to be held within the forum’s business program. Business sessions will be broadcast on the forum’s platforms, so that participants from countries where …

Using what he sees as an example of an equitable game, in his paper “From Mario Kart to pro-poor environmental governance,” Bell argues in favor of the so-called rubber-band effect, in which the gameplay is regulated through the distribution of power-ups of varying potency.  Making the case for more effective …

“The second wave of Covid-19 negatively impacted economic activity at the beginning of the year,” the agency’s analysts said. Fitch expects economic activity to rise in the country from the second half of 2021 due to a partial recovery of investments and the vaccination of citizens. At the same time, …

UNCTAD expects the global economy to grow by 4.7% in 2021 compared to the previously forecast 4.3%. “The global recovery that began in the third quarter of 2020 is expected to continue through 2021, albeit with a good deal of unevenness and unpredictability, reflecting epidemiological, policy and coordination uncertainties,” the …

The WEF’s controversial message turned out to be quite short-lived, surviving less than a day on its feed under a barrage of outraged comments. The tweet was accompanied by a video, showing deserted streets and silent factories, that noted a record drop in carbon emissions. It also linked to an …

A video accompanying the Friday tweet by the WEF shows images of deserted streets, grounded airliners and idled factories, then notes record declines in air pollution and a drop in carbon emissions. It later shows busy, smog-choked highways and notes that “the drop won’t slow climate change unless we lock …