April 2022

By Ben Rappaport, Chatham News + Record Staff Speakers at Tuesday's Chamber of Commerce development briefing touted recent economic development announcements and growth as evidence that Chatham County is heading in the right…

Canada's economy surged in February as pandemic-related restrictions eased, fueling economists' expectations that the Bank of Canada will opt for another oversized rate hike in June. Statistics Canada said Friday that real gross…

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Governor Kathy Hochul announced today that Great Lakes Cheese has opened a new state-of-the-art manufacturing and packaging facility in Franklinville and Farmersville. With a capital investment of more than $518 million, the project is the…

CLEARWATER, Fla. – On April 6, 2022, the Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council honored Clearwater Gas System with the Economic and Energy Partner Award at the 28and the region's annual future awards ceremony. Clearwater Gas System received…

The International Monetary Fund says the war in Ukraine is shaking the global economy and increasing uncertainty about the outlook for Latin America and the Caribbean, but economic growth is still expected. The IMF said the impact is being…

Vladimir Putin is expected to cancel Russia's top gubernatorial elections scheduled for this fall on Wednesday due to Western sanctions over the war in Ukraine, according to local media. An unnamed Kremlin official told the Interfax news…

Placeholder while loading article actionsNANJING, China — On a balmy Wednesday afternoon, two young men ventured out of their dorm to an industrial park to get their hair cut.They had time off as a lockdown in the city of Shanghai, more…

Wisconsin lacks both population growth and economic growth, trends that are related and worrisome and should be the focus of state policymakers. A recent indicator comes from preliminary data from the… Wisconsin is…

West Virginia lawmakers will meet in special session this week to reconsider several bills that still need work after this year's regular session and to consider a few for the first time.Governor Jim Justice called the special session…

AITKIN – The Aitkin Area Chamber of Commerce is hosting the Opportunity Tour from noon to 7 p.m. on Friday, May 6 in Aitkin.The tour is an open house to show entrepreneurs the investments and rental properties available in the…

WASHINGTON — Top global finance officials gathered in Washington last week faced a grim picture of the mounting economic costs of Russia's war in Ukraine and the challenges they face to help pay the short and long bills. Ukrainian…

Arnold Schwarzenegger has the answer to the climate emergency. Don't brag about the economic damage, he says, just say we need to "stop pollution".It might seem odd to cast the former bodybuilder and actor-turned-Republican politician as…

The National Labor Relations Board on Friday filed a lawsuit against Starbucks for what the agency said was the unlawful firing of seven employees in Memphis in retaliation for seeking to unionize.The labor board said the company fired the…

April 22, 2022 East St. Louis Mayor to Discuss Economic Development and City Budget CARBONDALE, Ill. – East St. Louis Mayor Robert Eastern III is the next guest in the…

The Supreme Court recently reinstated a Clean Water Act rule by the Trump administration that helps prevent states from using reasons other than water quality, such as climate change, to block infrastructure projects. and critical…

Amid gloomy major macroeconomic indicators, Nepal has faced economic challenges and hassles according to the latest data from the central bank. Although Nepal's Finance…

2020 was supposed to be a milestone for international cooperation, with major global conferences on biodiversity, climate change, gender equality and more. Yet a year full of expectations and updates was finally canceled due to…

DEODAR (BANASKANTHA): India is the "largest milk producer in the world": it produces milk worth Rs 8.5 lakh crore per year, which many people, "including large economists, don't pay attention," Prime Minister Narendra Modi told a large…

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has issued a third economic growth risk warning in less than a week, sparking concern among businesses as widespread COVID-19 lockdowns disrupt…

Editor's note: This is the second in a series of articles on how Paterson's mayoral candidates plan to solve the city's problems. An earlier history examined crime rate. PATERSON—The federal government unemployment New Jersey city stats…

Over the years, the central banks of the rich world have become one-trick ponies. They print and flood the financial system with money to drive down interest rates at the slightest sign of trouble in the…

Editor's note: Tatiana Bailey is a director of the University of Colorado at the Colorado Springs Economic…

In a bid to woo left-leaning voters for the final round of the French presidential election, Emmanuel Macron on Saturday called his far-right opponent Marine Le Pen a "climate sceptic" and trumpeted his own plans to build an…

The Frankston Economic Development Corporation has extended an…

Pakistan's economic performance is very discouraging. There is an immediate need for a policy change on the economic front. One of the options could be to reprofile the economy to revise economic performance, getting rid of the heavy…

After two years of lost growth, the Indian economy needs a major structural transformation towards a long-term high growth trajectory in output and employment. Why the distinction between employment growth and output…

Chapters Chapter 1 | Stronger headwinds during recovery As South Asia emerges from the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic, the recovery has been very uneven. Economies in the region face existing and accumulated challenges related to…

John Falcicchio, the deputy mayor for planning and economic development, is the complete opposite of what one might think of as a distant senior city official with many titles and vague functions. On the one hand, Falcicchio is in…

Containers are stacked for outbound shipments at Gamman Pier in Busan on January 21. According to provisional counts by customs authorities, the country's exports amounted to 34.4 billion dollars in the first 20 days of the year, up…

London Heathrow Airport has seen the highest number of passengers since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, but infection rates in the UK with Covid-19 have kept business and inbound travelers away.Demand surged last month after the UK…

Raven Hall. Image Credit: Office of Governor Kathy Hochul/HPD. The new building is 500 feet from the beach and boardwalk. On March 30, 2022, Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development…

The 2022 legislative session adjourned for the year on March 31. The session's achievements are an indicator of the strength of Idaho's economy and the!-->!-->!-->…

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia's prime minister has called for an election in May that will be held on issues including Chinese economic coercion, climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic.On Sunday, Prime Minister Scott Morrison…

Business is strong in Mansfield.Tim Bowersockthe city's director of economic development, provided an update on Tuesday Mansfield Town Council Meet.He said his office received 20 new leads in the first quarter of the year."We get a lead or…

The Ostracize China Act of 2022, sponsored on April 6 by U.S. Representative Frank Lucas (R-OK), would hold China responsible both economically and…

David Lefkowitz, head of U.S. equities at UBS GWM, says "consumers have a pretty big cushion of cash" to draw on to help offset the price spike. the US economy risks turning into a 1970s-style stagflation crisis as the…

Prospects for the formation of a new government are brightening after Pakistan's Supreme Court on Thursday overturned the president's decision on the no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Imran Khan, and said Prime Minister Khan's…

In the first half of the 20th century, Falfurrias, Texas was known as a huge agricultural area, producing the state's first citrus industry which began here in 1909. CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — There is an effort underway…

Interview with an ecologist who studies the emerging and understudied industry of the West. A private cannabis farm in unincorporated…

Fiji, the second largest economy in the sub-region, is expected to grow by 7.1% in 2022 and 8.5% in 2023. The opening of the country's borders in December 2021 gives hope for a revival of tourism. After 2 years of recession caused by the…

The IMF was created in 1945, the institution has its headquarters in Washington. Keystone/Jim Lo Scalzo The International Monetary Fund (IMF) recommends that Switzerland continue its current fiscal policy to meet the new…

PARKERSBURG — The community is invited to attend a joint ribbon cutting and open house on Tuesday, April 12 at the new Wood County and Downtown Economic Development…

The Geary Community Hospital Transition Task Force has released information about its work, why it is needed, and the development and growth of businesses in the city.. The task force includes: CEO Margaret Grismer; Facilitator Randy…

The latest data from the auto industry could point to worrying signs of the US consumer's propensity to spend. Major automakers around the world released their auto sales results in March. Taken together, the major automakers recorded…

When the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians was looking to establish its first certified 8(a) contracting business, the tribe's economic development arm turned to a key partner within the state of Michigan for help. It was the…

Since 2009, ASUU has moved away from staff welfare issues to focus on funding public universities to provide quality research and teaching. The ranking in Webometric is not based on the physical structures of the universities, but on the…

Scientists fear their latest climate warnings will be ignored amid international unrest caused by war in Ukraine and soaring energy prices.The third segment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's landmark science report – which…

Photo taken on Feb. 4, 2021 shows the Lahore converter station of the ±660 kV Matiari-Lahore high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission project under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) in eastern Punjab province of China.…

It is not possible to "completely undo" energy price pressures, a Cabinet minister has said, as protesters rally across the country over the cost of living crisis.But Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis said the government is…

Amid soaring inflation and concerns about a looming recession, the US economy added slightly fewer jobs than expected in March as the labor market tightened further.Nonfarm payrolls rose 431,000 for the month, while the unemployment rate…

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