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  • Odebrecht agrees to pay $220 million fine, aid Panama probe

    ARGENTINA, 2017/08/02 Brazilian engineering company Odebrecht [ODBES.UL] agreed to pay $220 million in fines and will cooperate with investigators probing bribes of Panamanian officials, the Central American country's attorney general said on Tuesday. The fine included $100 million for using the banking system for illicit activities, said Panama's attorney general, Kenia Porcell.
  • Argentine women are the most fluent English speakers in Latin America

    ARGENTINA, 2015/11/09 Although initial place went to Sweden, as it earned 70.94 points according to the English Proficient Index point system used, Argentina was well ahead of its neighbours with a 60.26 point score that is considered a high level. Argentine women scored higher than their male counterparts, as they scored 59.66 in comparison to the men’s 57.66. Although Argentina continued to top the regional English proficiency ranking that has existed for the completed five years, it did not move up in the world rankings. Although Argentina continued to top the regional English proficiency ranking that has existed for the completed five years, it did not move up in the world rankings.  Argentines are the majority fluent English-speakers in Latin America according to the EF English Proficiency Index 2015 statement — a study that analyzes the National of Worldwide English Proficiency. Globally the country came in 15th place out of the 70 nations that participated in the study, which uses test data from 910,000 adults.
  • Oxfam Study Finds Richest 1% Is Likely to Control Half of Global Wealth by 2016

    AFGHANISTAN, 2015/01/20 The richest 1 % are likely to control additional than half of the globe’s total wealth by next year, the charity Oxfam reported in a study released on Monday. The warning about deepening world inequality comes just as the world’s business elite prepare to meet this week at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The 80 wealthiest people in the world all own $1.9 trillion, the statement found, nearly the same all shared by the 3.5 billion people who occupy the bottom half of the world’s gain scale. (Last year, it took 85 billionaires to equal that figure.) And the richest 1 % of the people, who number in the millions, control nearly half of the world’s total wealth, a share that is as well increasing.
  • Argentine government yields to police forces demands

    ARGENTINA, 2013/12/10 Even at the same time as wage agreements have been reached in several of the provinces in turmoil, other provincial forces joined the protests and in others officers seem to have lost control or are not obeyed by the rank and file. In at least half of Argentina's 24 provinces police forces are in conflict inclunding Buenos Aires where 12 of the 40 million Argentines live. Precisely in Buenos Aires province police forces from La Plata, Bahía Blanca and Mar del Plata insisted with their demands and have impeded normal activities, despite the warning of Governor Daniel Scioli and the announcement of fee hikes. There was minor looting incidents in several of these cities Sunday night and into Monday.
  • Argentina to undertake an audit of its external deficit to improve transparency

    ARGENTINA, 2013/12/01 Following his initial visit to the country, the UN independent expert on foreign deficit and human rights, Cephas Lumina, said that the audit should be in line with the UN Guiding Principles on Foreign Deficit and Human Rights, which call for each National to conduct transparent and participatory periodic audits of their deficit or lending portfolios. “Such an audit will help promote accountability in public deficit management and can usefully inform next borrowing decisions by the National inclunding its deficit strategy, spending on development plans and the realization of human rights,” Mr. Lumina said on Friday. United Nations independent expert urged authorities in Argentina to undertake an audit of its external deficit to improve transparency, and to intensify efforts to improve social conditions for their people.
  • Some 60% of Argentine children in urban areas suffer deficit of basic rights

    ARGENTINA, 2013/08/27 The release which covers the 2010/2012 period revealed that 24.2% of urban infancy in Argentina suffered severe deficits in at least one of fundamental rights such as food, healthcare and housing, access to data and education. To this % must be added that 34.9% of children aged 0 to 17 belong to households with moderate shortcomings in at least one of those areas. Almost 60%, additional precisely, 59.1%, of Argentine children in urban areas suffer lack of coverage in their basic rights, according to a release from the Argentine Catholic University referred to infancy rights and included in the new Social Deficit Barometer statement.