MEDI1TV Afrique : JT Economie - 25/10/2024
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00:00Hello and welcome to your economic meeting on Médien.
00:13Starting in Morocco, the government proceeded, as part of the 2024 Finance Act,
00:19to create more than 30,000 budgetary posts for the benefit of ministries and institutions.
00:24According to the report on human resources supporting the 2025 Finance Act,
00:30these posts are mainly allocated to the Ministry of the Interior,
00:35the National Defense Administration and the Ministry of Health and Social Protection.
00:40The priority was granted to the Department of Security in 2024,
00:45and this in a social way, to meet their needs for the necessary human resources.
00:50It should be noted that the head of government is able to allocate 500 budgetary posts
00:55between the different ministries or institutions,
00:58of which 200 posts have been allocated to the benefit of people with disabilities.
01:04As part of the 2014-2024 period,
01:06around 265,000 budgetary posts were created,
01:11which is added to 159,000 posts created at the level of regional academies
01:16for education and training for the recruitment of primary and secondary school teachers.
01:22Let's stay in Africa.
01:23The Ivorian authorities and the OPEP Fund for International Development
01:27have signed a partnership agreement worth nearly 60 million dollars
01:32dedicated to financing the economic transformation
01:35and inclusive governance of this country in West Africa.
01:38This agreement was finalized on October 23 by the Ivorian Minister of Finance and Budget,
01:44Adama Koulibaly, on the basis of his participation at the head of an Ivorian delegation
01:49at the Annual Assemblies of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund,
01:53which are held in Washington, D.C.
01:55In this sense, the Ivorian official stressed the capital importance of this agreement
02:00for the achievement of the objectives of the National Development Plan.
02:04Adama Koulibaly also pointed out that strengthening inclusive governance
02:10is a key element of the country's economic transformation policy,
02:15enabling a more equitable society and improving the distribution of resources.
02:20Directions to the United States or the IMF
02:23want more details on the future international payment system envisaged by BRICS countries
02:29before evaluating its impact on international exchanges.
02:33According to its Director General, the institution needs more details
02:37to determine the impact of such a system,
02:40while the IMF is concerned about the risks of fragmentation of the global economy.
02:44The idea of an alternative payment system
02:47allowing the main countries of the South to use their national currency
02:51rather than the dollar or the euro was put forward on Tuesday
02:54during a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin
02:58and the President of the New Development Bank, Dilma Rousseff,
03:01at a summit in Russia.
03:03Still with the World Bank, which announced Thursday the launch of its strategy
03:08aimed at improving gender equality in the world,
03:11in particular for business creation,
03:13with the aim of integrating more women into the global economy by 2030.
03:19Before the end of the decade, the Washington-based institution
03:23wants to increase by 300 million the number of women
03:26who have access to mobile and Internet telephony by 250 million,
03:31those who have access to a social protection system
03:34and by 80 million the number of companies created by women in the world.
03:39In order to achieve these objectives,
03:41the Bank intends to give priority to investments,
03:44taking into account gender equality in digital inclusion,
03:48but also reducing administrative barriers to women's registration
03:52in social security records
03:54or allowing digital financial transfers for women.
03:59In Latin America, food exports have reached a record of $349 billion,
04:06making the subcontinent the main exporter region of these products,
04:11while contributing to food security in the world.
04:14The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, CEPALC,
04:19has reached this conclusion in its report on the benefits of foreign trade in this region.
04:25It is also congratulated on a positive evolution of goods exports in Latin America,
04:31with an increase of 4% in 2024.
04:35According to the CEPALC report, trade plays a key role
04:39in food security in Latin America and the Caribbean.
04:43The document deplores that the successive crises that the world economy has experienced in recent years
04:48have led to setbacks in the realization of one of the Sustainable Development Goals,
04:53that of the end of starvation in 2030
04:56and the guarantee of access to healthy, nutritious and sufficient food.
05:02The CEPALC projects that regional goods and services exports will increase by 4% this year.
05:09The strongest increases in value will occur for agricultural exports,
05:14followed by mines and oil, then the manufacturing industry.
05:19We come to the end of this Economic Diary.
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