December 17, 2019/OilPrice.com Chart Of The Week –    Employment in the U.S. coal mining industry declined from 92,000 in 2011 to just 54,000 in 2018. The largest declines were concentrated in Appalachia. –    In 2008, the U.S. produced 1.2 billion tons of coal from 1,458 mines. In 2018, those figures […]

December 17, AfDB The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (https://www.AfDB.org/) has approved a €109 million facility for the development of sewage disposal and wastewater treatment plants for rural areas in Luxor Governorate in Egypt’s Upper Nile region. The Integrated Rural Sanitation in Upper Egypt – Luxor (IRSUE-Luxor) […]

December 17, 2019/IMFBlog By Marialuz Moreno Badia and Paolo Dudine The new update of the IMF’s Global Debt Database shows that total global debt (public plus private) reached US$188 trillion at the end of 2018, up by US$3 trillion when compared to 2017. The global average debt-to-GDP ratio (weighted by […]