WASHINGTON – The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) today released a report detailing analysis of anti-fraud protocols put in place by the Biden-Harris Administration in SBA’s four largest pandemic programs. The report “Protecting the Integrity of the Pandemic Relief Emergency Programs: SBA’s Actions to Prevent, Detect and Address Fraud” highlights the actions the agency deployed […]
BEIJING, – As the world deals with major changes and a pandemic unseen in a century, China has highlighted the importance of advancing globalization even as the economic integration process faces headwinds. To forge greater synergy for development and close the development gap, the international community needs to pool cooperation resources, platforms and networks of […]
NEW YORK, Feb. 4, 2022 — Today’s jobs report showed a better-than-expected increase in the number of jobs in January. Disruptions related to the Omicron variant do not seem to have derailed continued progress in the labor market. However, headwinds for employers persist, as labor shortages are still severe and economic activity remains healthy. Nonfarm […]
BEIJING, Dec. 31, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — A news report by China.org.cn on the Chinese character of 2021: “Zhi,” meaning “governance,” was chosen as the Chinese character of 2021. In the “Daodejing” by ancient Chinese thinker Laozi, it says, “Governing a large state is like cooking a small fish.” How was China’s dish cooked in 2021? […]
BEIJING, Nov. 30, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — China-Africa friendship is expected to continue to flourish as cooperation is further deepened in various areas after the ongoing 8th Ministerial Conference of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) held in Dakar, Senegal. China will provide an additional one billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines to Africa, carry out 10 […]
BEIJING, Oct. 30, 2021 — In early October, the International Monetary Fund, in its World Economic Outlook, trimmed its 2021 global growth forecast to 5.9 percent and warned of high uncertainty in economic recovery. Against such a backdrop, the leaders of the world’s 20 largest economies gathered in Italy’s Rome on Saturday trying to make […]
RIVERSIDE, Calif., Oct. 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — The demise of dense downtown areas in the United States has been predicted throughout, and long before, the COVID-19 pandemic. But according to a new analysis released today by the UC Riverside School of Business Center for Economic Forecasting and Development, downtowns are far from dying and today […]
ZURICH, Oct. 15, 2021 — The Geneva Association and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) co-hosted a high-level conference on 12 October 2021, Future-Proofing Technological Innovations for a Resilient Net-Zero Economy, with the aim of providing input for the discussions that will take place at COP26 in Glasgow in November. The strategic, multi-stakeholder […]
NEW YORK, Oct. 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Deloitte today announced the launch of its ConvergeHEALTH CognitiveSpark™ for Marketing artificial intelligence (AI) precision engagement solution, a module of the CognitiveSpark suite. CognitiveSpark for Marketing harnesses the power of AI to boost digital marketing return on investment (ROI) for life sciences companies, helping marketers make AI-powered decisions […]
NEW YORK and LONDON, Aug. 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) and Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CA ANZ) reveal in a new report the pressing need for the accountancy profession to make the necessary connections between Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its relationship to environmental, social and governance (ESG) […]
