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OECD calls for better using expansionary fiscal initiatives to escape low-growth gap www.xinhuanet.com.cn

PARIS, Nov. 28 (Xinhua) -- The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) called for Monday better using expansionary fiscal initiatives and maintaining trade openness to push the global economy out of today's low-growth trap.
 
"In light of the current context of low interest rates, policymakers have a unique window of opportunity to make more active use of fiscal levers to boost growth and reduce inequality without compromising debt levels," Secretary-General of OECD Angel Gurria said Monday, while launching the latest version of report named "Global Economic Outlook", adding that "we urge them to do so."
 
The OECD said in the report that the ongoing or projected shift in the fiscal stance in a number of major economies including the United States, accounts for much of the modest increase in global growth to 3.3 percent in 2017 and 3.6 percent in 2018.
 
But "this is not a blank cheque for governments," Gurria said, noting that "the OECD is calling for fiscal policy to be used more wisely, with spending targeted at areas that boost growth, like high-quality infrastructure investment, innovation, education and skills, which also make growth more inclusive."
 
In the report, the OECD also identified a number of financial risks where exchange rate and capital flow volatility coupled with pricing distortions are exposing the vulnerability of corporate balance sheets, particularly in emerging markets, and challenging bank profitability and the long-term stability of pension schemes in advanced economies.
 
The international organization also said that an increase in protectionism could risk impairing already weak growth in global trade.
 
It called in the report on governments to avoid protectionist policies and encourages them instead to implement structural policy packages that create more job opportunities, increase business dynamism and promote successful reallocation, ensuring that the gains from trade are better shared by all.
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Trump faces dilemma as U.S. oil reels from record biofuels targets www.reuters.com

The Obama administration signed its final plan for renewable fuel use in the United States last week, leaving an oil industry reeling from the most aggressive biofuel targets yet as President-elect Donald Trump takes over.
 
The Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program, signed into law by President George W. Bush, is one of the country's most controversial energy policies. It requires energy firms to blend ethanol and biodiesel into gasoline and diesel.
 
The policy was designed to cut greenhouse gas emissions, reduce U.S. reliance on oil imports and boost rural economies that provide the crops for biofuels.
 
It has pitted two of Trump's support bases against each other: Big Oil and Big Corn. The farming sector has lobbied hard for the maximum biofuel volumes laid out in the law to be blended into gasoline motor fuels, while the oil industry argues that the program creates additional costs.
 
Balancing oil and farm interests is likely to prove a challenge for Trump, who has promised to curtail regulations on the oil industry but is already being reminded by biofuels advocates of the importance of the program to the American Midwest, where he received strong support from voters on Nov. 8.
 
Oil groups are renewing their calls to change or repeal the program following Wednesday's announcement, when the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) set record mandates for renewable fuels - for the first time hitting levels targeted by Congress nearly a decade ago..
 
The EPA plan is "completely detached from market realities and confirms once again that Congress must take immediate action to remedy this broken program," said Chet Thompson, President of the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers, in a statement.
 
It is unclear what Trump's plans for the program will be and his transition team did not respond to Reuters' requests for comment.
 
Both camps are expecting an administration receptive to their demands, though both have expressed concern and uncertainty over Trump's plans for the program, according to experts, industry and political sources.
 
The installation of climate change skeptic Myron Ebell as head of the transition at the EPA bolstered oil industry confidence Trump will swing their way. In September, Trump appeared to briefly echo the views of his supporter, billionaire Carl Icahn, who expressed concern about the program.
 
Icahn, who owns a stake in an oil refiner, renewed those criticisms last week, saying the ethanol credit market generated by the program is susceptible to manipulation and harming independent refiners.
 
PRO-ETHANOL CAMPAIGNING
 
The president-elect campaigned on a pro-ethanol platform when he visited America's farm states and biofuels advocates expect he will keep the RFS strong, maintaining annual targets at the minimum set forth by Congress.
 
"Mr. Trump will not turn his back on the American heartland, we believe in him," said Annette Sweeney, a former state representative from Iowa who was a member of the Trump's agricultural advisory committee during his candidacy.
 
"To a certain extent, we are on higher ground. You always want to be on higher ground," said Bob Dinneen, head of the Renewable Fuels Association, referring to the increase.
 
"We’ll be able to demonstrate the marketplace can absorb 15 billion gallons of ethanol. We can put this all behind us. As we look to 2018... there's no reason to go back," he said.
 
The renewables industries have already started to emphasize their place among American-made fuels, something experts expect will appeal to Trump.
 
"There are a lot of good things to be said about second-generation fuels, even from the new administration’s perspective," said Harvard University professor and former Obama administration advisor James Stock.
 
"All the new administration needs to do is embrace the original ... vision of the RFS," he said.
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Baidu maps out global expansion www.chinadaily.com.cn

Baidu Map, a desktop and mobile map service provided by China's online search giant Baidu Inc, is set to become a world mapping service provider covering more than 150 countries and regions.
 
On Wednesday, the company will launch its map services for more countries and regions. The new map services will cover countries in Asia, Europe, Africa, North America, South America and Oceania, and provide services for 99 percent of the world population.
 
"This signals that we will finally transform from a Chinese map provider to a world map provider and become the Chinese brand that provides global services for mobile travel applications," said Li Dongmin, general manager of Baidu Map.
 
Currently, Baidu Map claims that it accounts for about 70 percent of domestic market share, with more than 300 million active monthly users and about 100 million car owners using its mapping service, according to the company.
 
At the beginning of the year, Baidu Map initiated its internationalization strategies and has been expanding rapidly globally.
 
On Monday, Baidu Map started strategic cooperation with the tourist administrations of four northern European countries－Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. The two sides will exchange data, share resources, and jointly develop more events to improve the traveling experiences of Chinese visitors.
 
"The cooperation signals a further step forward in the localization of Baidu Map in the course of its internationalization, following our cooperation with the tourist administrations of South Korea and Thailand," Li said.
 
In the first half of 2016, Chinese people made 59.03 million trips abroad, up 4.3 percent year-on-year, according to the China National Tourism Administration.
 
Baidu Map said it has covered 25 percent of Chinese outbound tourists, and, by 2020, it aims that overseas users will account for half of its total users.
 
"We will strengthen in-depth cooperation with overseas governments and leading enterprises and choose some key countries to provide mapping services in local languages and increase our local impact," Li said.
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Mongolian FM Signs Book of Condolences on Fidel Castro's Demise www.en.montsame.mn

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mongolia, Mr Ts Munkh-Orgil, visited the Cuban Embassy in Ulaanbaatar, to sign the book of condolences, on the demise of historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz. Accompanying the FM, were Damdin Gansukh, Director of the Department of America, Middle East and Africa, Enkhbold Odmunkh, deputy Director of Protocol of the Foreign Ministry.
 
Cuban ambassador, Raul Delgado Concepción, thanked the Foreign Minister who also transmitted the condolences of the Spokesperson of the Mongolian Parliament (Great Hural) the gesture of visiting the diplomatic see to express condolences in the name of the government on occasion of the passing of the leader of the Cuban Revolution and great Cuban revolutionary.
The Minister recalled the valuable contribution of Commander in Chief Fidel Castro who started the friendly relationship between Mongolia and Cuba and strengthened the development of that relation, reports Prensa Latina.
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SEC said to be probing Rio Mozambique coal deal www.mining.com

The US Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating a massive writedown booked by world number two miner Rio Tinto on a coal deal in Mozambique according to news reports.
 
Rio Tinto acquired the Benga mine and other coal projects in the Southern African country’s Tete province in 2011, after buying Australia's Riversdale Mining for $3.7 billion.
 
But in 2013 the Anglo-Australian giant took an asset impairment charge of $3 billion on the coking coal venture citing challenges in building the necessary infrastructure to bring the project on stream.
 
Bloomberg reports the charge, part of a wider $14 billion in asset writedowns, led to the departure of then CEO Tom Albanese.
 
A year later Melbourne-based Rio sold the assets to an Indian company for just $50 million.
 
Mozambique's central Tete province is believed to hold one of the world's largest untapped coal reserves that has been compared with Australia's coal-rich Bowen Basin.
 
As part of a separate investigation, Rio this month fired two top executives in relation to a bribery case at its recently sold Simandou iron ore project in Guinea, West Africa.
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Protectionism and trade disputes threaten world growth, says OECD www.theguardian.com

A new wave of protectionism and trade tensions risks denting global growth, stoking inflation and harming living standards, the west’s leading economic thinktank has warned in its first in-depth forecasts since Donald Trump won the US election on an anti-globalisation platform.
 
The Paris-based Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) said it was optimistic that expected spending measures and tax cuts under the new US administration would boost growth there and in other countries. But it said global trade growth was already “exceptionally weak” and jobs would suffer if politicians rolled back the clock on trade liberalisation.
 
The thinktank warned of an uncertain outlook for the UK and its trading partners as Brexit negotiations began. It nudged up its forecasts for UK growth next year but still predicted the weakest performance since the recession and a further slowdown in 2018.
 
The OECD used its quarterly forecasts to urge governments to use low borrowing costs to invest and enact structural reforms. The group reprised a warning to politicians not to over-rely on central banks to drive the recovery with monetary policies, such as low interest rates and electronic money-printing programmes.
 
It forecast that, after averaging 3.9% growth over the decade to 2013, global growth would be 2.9% this year then edge up to 3.3% in 2017 and 3.6% in 2018.
 
“Almost a decade after the outbreak of the financial crisis, the global economy remains in a low-growth trap with weak investment, trade, productivity and wage growth and rising inequality in some countries,” said Catherine Mann, the OECD’s chief economist.
 
“Monetary policy is overburdened, leading to growing financial risks and distortions. Alongside structural reforms, a stronger fiscal policy response is needed to boost near-term growth and strengthen long-term prospects for inclusive growth.”
 
The OECD said global trade growth had collapsed and the prospects of only a modest recovery over coming years suggested globalisation “may now be close to stalling”.
 
The report did not specifically name Trump or any other politicians around the world who have tapped into disillusionment over the spoils of globalisation appearing to be unfairly distributed. But it did warn generally on the potential perils of protectionism.
 
OECD researchers analysed global growth prospects under different trade conditions and forecast a significant blow from rolling back the trade liberalisation seen over the last 15 years.
 
“The global loss in GDP would be about 1.3%, but for the countries that impose the restriction, in other words, the US, China and the EU, the loss in their GDP would be closer to 2%,” said Mann.
 
“The countries that impose the restrictions damage themselves more.”
 
The report noted that more than 25% of jobs depend on foreign demand in many of the 35 countries in the OECD group.
 
“This economic outlook suggests that protectionism and inevitable trade retaliation would offset much of the effects of the fiscal initiatives on domestic and global growth, raise prices, harm living standards, and leave countries in a worsened fiscal position.
 
“Trade protectionism shelters some jobs, but worsens prospects and lowers wellbeing for many others,” the report said.
 
The warning comes days after the US president-elect announced his intention to pull out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal.
 
Mann said the solution for countries like the US, where voters have voiced their frustration at how globalisation has apparently weighed on wages and job creation, was to use domestic policies to ensure the gains from trade were shared better.
 
“What we know about trade is it expands the pie. Now the problem with trade has been the distribution of the gains from trade and this has always been known … and the fabric of domestic policies has not addressed that,” she said.
 
On the tax and spending side, the OECD’s forecasters said they expected stimulus measures from the US government would raise US GDP growth by around 0.4 percentage points in 2017 and around 0.8 percentage points in 2018. US growth was expected to pick up next year and quicken again in 2018.
 
At its last forecasts in September, the OECD backtracked on its earlier warning that the UK would suffer instant damage from the Brexit vote. In this new outlook, the thinktank forecast UK GDP would have grown 2.0% this year, a touch higher than the 1.8% it predicted in September.
 
The forecast for next year was lifted to 1.2% from 1% in September. But that would still be the weakest growth since the depths of the global financial crisis in 2009 and is slower than the 1.4% forecast by the Bank of England and the government’s fiscal watchdog, the Office for Budget Responsibility.
 
An OECD forecast for 2018 showed economic growth slowing to just 1% and the thinktank warned of higher inflation on the back of a weaker pound.
 
It noted Philip Hammond’s move in last week’s autumn statement to abandon the strict borrowing rules of his predecessor, George Osborne, but urged the chancellor to go further. “A more significant increase in public investment would support demand in the near term and boost supply in the longer term.”
 
The thinktank also urged “caution” from the government over plans to raise the “national living wage” over coming years, warning it could backfire and hurt workers by increasing unemployment.
 
“The effects on employment need to be carefully assessed before any further increases are adopted, especially as growth slows and labour markets weaken.”
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Samsung Electronics considers splitting firm in two www.bbc.com

Samsung Electronics has confirmed it is considering dividing the company into two separate firms.
The company has been under pressure from some investors to break itself into a holding unit and an operating company to boost shareholder value.
The South Korean technology giant also announced plans to increase dividends and said it would continue to buy back more shares.
Restructuring pressure had been mounting after the Note 7 fiasco.
In October, the company was forced to stop production of its flagship smartphone model after failing to resolve battery problems leading to overheating and the devices catching fire.
A 'thorough review'
Samsung said it would bring in "external advisors to conduct a thorough review of the optimal corporate structure."
The firm pointed out that "the review does not indicate the management or the Board's intention one way or another."
Samsung also said it would pay out half of its free cash flow to shareholders for 2016 and 2017 and raise the dividend for 2016 by 36% compared to the previous year.
In order to improve governance, the firm said it would nominate at least "one new, international, independent Board member" as well as create a separate governance committee.
The company's statement comes after US activist hedge fund Elliott Management called for the firm to split into a holding unit for ownership purposes and a separate operating company.
Why two companies?
The fund argued that a split would simplify the company structure making it easier to get a clear valuation of the firm's assets.
Currently, companies within the wider Samsung Group are linked through a complicated web of cross shareholding, linking Samsung Electronics to many other Samsung's firms and affiliates ranging from shipping, to heavy industries to insurance business.
That makes it difficult for investors to get a clear idea of what each individual Samsung company is actually worth.
The benefit of splitting Samsung Electronics into two companies would be that the cross-shareholding would affect only the holding company while the operating unit could be assed separately - making it a lot easier to arrive at a clean company evaluation.
The proposal has won support from several of Samsung's investors and it is also thought that it would give back more control to the founding Lee family behind the company.
 
 
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India braces for large protests after rupee banknote ban www.rt.com

Thousands are expected to take part in nationwide protests across India on Monday against the government's withdrawal of two ubiquitous currency notes.
 
The 500 and 1,000 (about $7.50, $15) rupee notes were withdrawn earlier this month, turning 86 percent of the cash in the country to paper.
 
The anti-corruption measure caused chaos as cash machines began to run out of money with people rushing banks to exchange their old currency. The banks called in thousands of police to manage long lines outside branches.
 
Almost all of India's transactions are in cash and many people don't have a bank account.
 
According to the opposition parties, the so-called ‘day of rage’ protests are likely to take place at central government offices as well as outside banks.
 
The main opposition Congress party will hold a protest march in the southern city of Bangalore, where several thousand people are expected to participate, the BBC reported.
 
No-one is happy with the government’s demonetization move, the parties say, adding the old notes should be returned.
 
"The 1000 and 500 rupee notes should be allowed for all legal transactions, payments and settlements… till alternative arrangements of making new currency notes available is put in place or until 30 December," the Communist Party said.
 
Public anger and frustration were on the rise after the Indian government decided to get rid of the notes citing tax evasion and corruption.
 
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called for people to embrace digital payments and use less cash.
 
The finance minister said the demonetization move “expands the GDP and makes it cleaner; it pushes revenues, pushes the economy, pushes more money into the banking systems.”
 
Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, however, called the government's move to ban the much-used banknotes a "monumental mismanagement," predicting the country's gross domestic product to fall "by about two percent" as a result.
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Zimbabwe launches new currency to ease cash crunch www.rt.com

The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has introduced a national currency for the first time since 2009 in an attempt to tackle a sharp shortfall of the US dollar, the country’s primary medium of trade.
 
The new currency, called bond notes, is pegged at par with the US dollar and is backed by a $200 million bond facility with Afreximbank, according to the regulator.
 
An initial amount worth $10 million is going into general circulation in two and five dollar denominations.
 
The circulation of the dollar will not be suspended.
 
The bond notes have fueled fears of economic chaos with people’s savings being wiped out. Some analysts call the introduction of the new currency the Zimbabwean president’s “last gamble.”
 
The bond notes aim to halt the outflow of US dollars from the country as well as to ease a cash shortage.
 
The country started using US dollar as its primary currency seven years ago following the collapse the Zimbabwean dollar with hyperinflation of 500 billion percent.
 
Some vendors are accepting the new money, though say they will stop if the notes begin to lose value.
 
The introduction of the currency might cause shortages of commodities and price hikes, according to Harare-based economic consultant John Robertson.
 
“Anyone who needs foreign currency for imports will have to go to the black market. Inevitably the bond notes will lose their value. It is back to the Zimbabwe dollar scenario,” he said as quoted by AP.
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MNT 514.2 billions of loan to reduce air pollution granted www.gogo.mn

In scope of Mongolian Sustainable Financing Principle, MNT 880.8 billions of financing were funded to the companies as of first three quarters of 2016. Of which MNT 514.2 billions were granted to the projects aiming at reducing air pollution of Mongolia, which accounts the 58.4 percent of total financing. 
MNT 321.5 billion were funded to four water conservation projects, MNT 16.1 billion were funded to 787 renewable energy projects, MNT 28.6 billion were funded to 900 energy efficiency projects and MNT 400 million were funded to other green projects. About 30 percent (one in three) of loans borrowed by the commercial banks to the companies provide the requirement for green loans. 
In further, Mongolian Bankers Association is projected to establish "Green loan fund" and fincance the fund with international fundings. According to the international standard, up to US$ 50 millions of green loans is able to be granted for per green project.

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