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Guinea-Bissau

Angola’s economic growth revised upwards by IMF

18 April 2018
Angola's economy is expected to grow by 2.2% this year and 2.4% in 2019, up by 0.6 percentage points and one percentage point than forecasts in the World Economic Outlook for October 2017, the International Monetary Fund announced on Tuesday in Washington.

Trade between China and Portuguese-speaking countries totals US$20.4 billion in January/February

16 April 2018
Trade between China and the Portuguese-speaking countries in January/February totalled US$20.4 billion, or an increase of 37.43% over the same period of 2017, according to official Chinese figures released by Forum Macau.

IPIM director appointed as Deputy Secretary-General of Forum Macau

13 April 2018
The director of the Macau Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM), Gloria Batalha Ung, will be appointed to the position of deputy secretary-general of Forum Macau, taking on both roles, according to a statement from the office of the Macau Secretary's for the Economy and Finance.

Macau businessmen promote food products from Portuguese-speaking countries

12 April 2018
Businessmen and shopkeepers from Macau will promote food products from Portuguese-speaking countries on 26 and 27 April in Huizhou and Dongguan, and in Fuzhou in Fujian province in May, according to the Macau Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM).

Angola remains interested in Guinea-Bissau bauxite

11 April 2018
Angola will resume its agricultural and bauxite exploration projects in Guinea-Bissau, Angola's second deputy speaker, Higino Carneiro, said on Tuesday in Bissau, quoted by the Angolan press.

Guinea-Bissau’s economic growth remains strong, IMF says

3 April 2018
Guinea-Bissau continued to grow strongly, its fiscal position improved significantly and the country's authorities have requested a one-year extension of the Extended Credit Facility programme, according to the main conclusions of the talks held in Bissau by a team from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), an official statement said.

CPLP to shift focus from language to economy, says secretary-general

29 March 2018
The growing interest of countries such as South Korea in the status of observer to the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP) shows the economic potential of the organisation without language being the central priority, the secretary general Maria do Carmo Silveira said on Wednesday in London.

Guinea-Bissau launches cashew marketing campaign

26 March 2018
On Saturday, in the eastern area of the country, Guinea-Bissau launched its campaign to market cashew nuts that will run until September.

Forum Macau plans to visit Portuguese-speaking countries in 2018

23 March 2018
Delegations from Forum Macau will travel to Angola, Brazil, Cabo Verde (Cape Verde), Guinea Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal, Sao Tome and Principe and Timor-Leste (East Timor) this year under the institutions programme of activities for 2018, with a view to strengthening relations and exploring ways of further disseminating the institution's objectives.

Forum Macau plans to make more efforts to support business people

22 March 2018
The Secretary-General of Forum Macau, Xu Yingzhen, said that in the future, more efforts will be made to enable entrepreneurs from the organisations' eight member countries to take advantage of the potential offered to them.

Macau launches 2018 training programme for Portuguese-speaking countries’ tourism sector

14 March 2018
The 2018 training programme for government tourism officials from Portuguese-speaking countries began on Monday in Macau organised by the Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO) in cooperation with the Permanent Office of the Forum for Economic and Trade Cooperation between China and Portuguese-speaking countries (Macau), the DST said.

Portuguese-speaking countries well positioned to benefit from China’s ‘Belt and Road’ initiative

13 March 2018
Portuguese-speaking countries are well positioned to share the economic benefits associated with the "Belt and Road" initiative announced by China, according to Clbrief (https://clbrief.com/), a news service specialising in the Portuguese-speaking world and China.

China-Lusophone Brief, a new economic relations news service

12 March 2018
The analysis of the economic and political situation of the Portuguese-speaking countries and business opportunities with China, at a time when Beijing is strongly committed to the "Belt and Road" and "Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Great Bay" initiatives, are the main lines of action of the new English-language news service launched on Monday and called China-Lusophone Brief (CLBrief).

Trade between China and Portuguese-speaking countries grows 29.4% in 2017

13 February 2018
Trade between China and the Portuguese-speaking countries totalled US$117.58 billion in 2017, a year-on-year increase of 29.40%, according to official Chinese figures released by Forum Macau.

Future of Forum Macau under discussion at its 15-year celebrations

9 February 2018
The Secretary-General of Forum Macau, Xu Yingzhen, announced in Beijing that the 15th anniversary of the establishment of the institution, in 2003 following a Chinese initiative joined by the Portuguese-speaking countries, would be celebrated in Macau this year.

IMF recommends that infrastructure spending in Guinea-Bissau be well managed

25 January 2018
Infrastructure investment proposed by the Guinea-Bissau government under the State Budget for 2018 is welcome as it helps to fill serious gaps, but the process has to be very well managed, said the team from the International Monetary Fund which was on a mission to the country from 17 to 23 January.

Chinese technicians provide support to Guinea-Bissau farmers to produce rice

24 January 2018
The Rice Research and Innovation Institute of Chinese company Yuan Longping High-Tech Agriculture Co. is due soon to send some technicians to Guinea-Bissau to support a group of farmers, who recently underwent training at that institution, to make their rice plantations more profitable, officials said in Bissau on Tuesday.

Chinese fishing company builds fish processing and preserving factory in Guinea-Bissau

17 January 2018
Zhongyu Global Seafood Corporation, a Chinese fishing company, will build a fish processing and preserving unit in Bissau under a memorandum of intent signed on Monday with the government of Guinea-Bissau.

China may finance construction of university campus in Guinea-Bissau, ambassador says

15 January 2018
China may finance the construction of a university campus in Guinea-Bissau, similar to the one planned for Cabo Verde (Cape Verde), Ambassador Jin Hongun said in a recent interview with local weekly newspaper "Democrata."

World Bank lowers forecast for Mozambique’s economic growth and raises Angola’s

11 January 2018
The World Bank has revised its economic growth forecast for Mozambique this year to 3.2%, a drop of 2.9 percentage points from the June 2017 forecast, according to the Global Economic Outlook report published on Wednesday in Washington.
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