{"id":151112,"date":"2021-11-05T11:32:12","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T03:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=151112"},"modified":"2021-11-05T11:32:12","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T03:32:12","slug":"cuba-expects-2-bln-usd-foreign-investment-in-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=151112","title":{"rendered":"Cuba expects 2 bln-USD foreign investment in 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>HAVANA, Nov 5 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; Cuba expects a gradual economic recovery with projected foreign investment flows of some 2 billion U.S. dollars in 2022, Cuban Minister of Foreign Trade and Investment Rodrigo Malmierca said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the hope of attracting overseas investors, the Caribbean nation has prioritized strategic economic sectors, &#8220;such as renewable energy, tourism and national food production,&#8221; Malmierca said on the sidelines of a news conference ahead of the second Cuba Business Forum, which will be held online from Nov 29 to Dec 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The minister stressed the importance of China as one of Cuba&#8217;s main trade partners, saying that the island welcomes more direct investment from Chinese companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to official figures, Cuba&#8217;s GDP has contracted 13 percent since the COVID-19 pandemic first hit the country in March 2020.\u00a0&#8212; NNN-XINHUA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HAVANA, Nov 5 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; Cuba expects a gradual economic recovery with projected foreign investment flows of some 2 billion U.S. dollars in 2022, Cuban Minister of Foreign Trade and Investment Rodrigo Malmierca said. In the hope of attracting overseas investors, the Caribbean nation has prioritized strategic economic sectors, &#8220;such as renewable energy, tourism and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151112"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=151112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}