News Burundi Financial analytics: Is Health Insurance Mandatory?
She also assists with content strategy for several brands. Health insurance is not mandatory at the federal level. Some states may impose a tax penalty if you do not have health insurance ...
News Burundi Financial analytics: Uruguay goods' exports up 16,5% in value year to year and reach US$ 13,36bn
Uruguay’s goods exports grew 16.5% in value during the past year, to reach a record high of US$ 13.36 billion, according to the country's trade promotion agency. Each of the first eight months ...
News Burundi Financial analytics: EAC exports to Africa soar to $7.9 billion in 2021
Arusha. Exports from the East African Community (EAC) bloc to Africa soared to $7.9 billion in 2021 in spite of Covid-19 impact.They comprised 42 percent share of the region’s total exports of goods to the world which was $18.7 billion during the period.Top EAC exports to Africa included precious stones, coffee, tea, cement, animal fats, mineral oils and iron and steel.This was revealed in Kigali, Rwanda last week during a private sector...
News Burundi Financial analytics: Does foreign aid create a culture of dependence?
And so the World Bank has stepped in and provided $40 million in aid – with another $150 million still to come. Hundreds of thousands of the poorest households will receive cash – with some targeted ...
News Burundi Financial analytics: Would affirmative action help Burundi?
Narrating his experience of Burundi recently, The East African’s Charles Onyango-Obbo sums it up as a mandaazi economy. True, mandaazi (buns) do make a strangely disproportionate percentage of ...
News Burundi Financial analytics: Africa's Jobs Plan - Creating Millions of Jobs for Africa's Teeming Youth
The International Labor Organization (ILO) estimates Africa’s 2020 unemployment rate as 6.6% with a large variance between countries - from a low 0.8% in Burundi to a high ... A Brookings Institution ...
News Burundi Financial analytics: Tanzania and Burundi to establish 282m-long railway route
In a statement, Tanzania’s finance ministry stated that the nations are seeking financial supporters ... from Malagarasi to Uvinza, Burundi will build a section that will span for 126km to Gitega.
News Burundi Financial analytics: EAC Moves to Eliminate Trade Related Phytosanitary Barriers
The first series of the East African Community Capacity Building Sessions for Plant Health Inspectors on Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to operationalize Pest Risk Analysis in the region ...
