MEDI1TV Afrique : JT Economie - 18/10/2024
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00:00FRUIT AND VEGETABLE EXPORTERS
00:08Hello and welcome, it's time for your economic news.
00:12At the beginning of our edition, this Friday, Morocco remains the first supplier of Spain in fruits and vegetables,
00:18according to statistics published by the Spanish Federation of Fruit and Vegetable Producers and Exporters.
00:25Spain has imported nearly a quarter of its fruit and vegetable needs in the first seven months of 2024,
00:33for a value of €698 million.
00:37Moroccan expeditions are up 10% compared to the same period last year.
00:43The second country supplying Spain in fruits and vegetables is Peru, with an export value of €317 million.
00:52Then comes France in third position with €298 million,
00:58Portugal with €218 million and Costa Rica with €168 million.
01:05At the beginning of the economic news, also in a context marked by a flurry of prices of red meat in Morocco,
01:12largely caused by drought and the rise in price of animal feed,
01:17the National Office for Health Security of Food Products took a new step.
01:23It launched a circular aimed at facilitating the importation of red meat to meet the growing demand,
01:30while maintaining the health standards of the Kingdom.
01:33According to this decision, the importation of fresh or frozen red meat is now authorized from a wide list of countries.
01:42For beef and goat meat, importation is allowed from all countries of the European Union,
01:48as well as countries such as Argentina, Australia, Canada, the United States, Great Britain, New Zealand and Russia.
01:56As for beef meat, this list is extended to Brazil, Paraguay and Ukraine.
02:01Importers will have to have facilities agreed upon for the storage of meat,
02:07a requirement intended to ensure a rigorous monitoring of the cold chain and the quality of imported products.
02:14In international economic news, reassured by inflation,
02:18which has fallen to the lowest level in three years in the euro zone,
02:21the European Central Bank decided on Thursday to lower its directorial rates.
02:27This new reduction of 0.25 percentage points
02:31makes 3.25% the deposit rate, which serves as a reference for credit conditions in the economy.
02:39Inflation in the euro zone slows down more than expected in September at 1.7% per year,
02:45against a first estimate at 1.8% according to Eurostat.
02:50In September, for the first time in more than three years, inflation fell below the 2% threshold,
02:56the goal set by the Monetary Institution.
02:59The latter has strongly raised its rates in the wake of the recovery post-COVID-19,
03:05followed by the Russian-Ukrainian military operation that made energy prices soar.
03:11We continue our international news with this figure revealed by the United Nations Development Program.
03:18More than a billion people in the world suffer from acute poverty, half of whom are minors.
03:25The UN agency and the Oxford Initiative Research Centre on Poverty and Human Development
03:31are particularly alarmed by the rate of poverty, three times higher in countries at war,
03:37than there has ever been since World War II during the armed conflict in 2023.
03:43The poverty index for 2022 also concerned 1.1 billion people out of 6.1 billion inhabitants of 110 countries.
03:53According to the UN, the five countries with the most very poor are in strong demographic growth.
04:00India with 234 million people, Pakistan with 93 million, Ethiopia with 86 million,
04:09Nigeria 74 million and the Democratic Republic of Congo with 66 million very poor out of 100 million inhabitants.
04:19China has now unveiled a new wave of measures to support the real estate sector and boost its economy.
04:27Beijing has announced the next increase in loans for real estate construction sites,
04:32an HV for more than 500 billion euros.
04:35The housing and construction sector has long represented more than a quarter of the world's second-largest economy's GDP.
04:43Since 2020, the sector has been suffering from a hardening by Beijing of credit access conditions for real estate developers.
04:50Authorities are still targeting a growth of about 5% this year,
04:55but many analysts consider this objective to be too optimistic
04:59due to the many obstacles that the second world economy is currently facing.
05:04The Ministry of Housing has announced that authorities will in particular increase the credit scale of projects on the White List
05:11to 4 billion yuan, or 517 billion euros by the end of the year.
05:18We come to the end of our edition today. Excellent continuation of the program on our antenna.