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A US offer to back Jordanian bond issues may help lower the Kingdom’s borrowing costs and boost confidence in the country’s securities, which has been dented by regional instability that has slowed economic growth.

Plans to consolidate Turkey’s position as an energy transit bridge appear to have suffered a setback, with a major project to connect the Black Sea and the Eastern Mediterranean put on hold by both the Turkish government and one of the scheme’s key investors, though for different reasons.

The local economy is struggling to overcome twin hurdles – an inflated unemployment rate that siphons off state funding for social services and a lack of skilled workers to fill the many positions that are currently vacant.

Ghana’s economy is expected to see robust growth this year, at around 8.5%, but so too will public spending. The 20% increase in government expenditures should help sustain social services and infrastructure investment, and underwrite activity in the energy, agriculture and construction sectors. However, there are concerns the country may not be pursuing fiscal consolidation aggressively enough, and 2013 will see a wide deficit and rising debt.

As Papua New Guinea’s top banks and financial services firms record healthy profits, citing overall strength of the economy, the government has pledged a broad and ambitious infrastructure development programme in hopes of further boosting growth. However, concerns about the future distribution of an expected resource-driven boom continue to dampen long-term expectations.

Au cours des dix années qui ont suivi le lancement, en 2003, d’un grand chantier de réformes du système éducatif algérien, le pays a mis en œuvre de nombreuses initiatives visant à améliorer les programmes et l’enseignement, récoltant toutefois, bien souvent, des résultats mitigés. Afin de garantir que les réformes existantes produisent l’effet escompté sur le secteur, le Ministre algérien de l’Éducation Nationale a fait appel à une variété d’acteurs concernés pour dresser le bilan des progrès effectués par les écoles du pays depuis 2003 ainsi qu’identifier les défis qui restent à surmonter.