THE HAGUE ecco cool gtx australia , June 10 (Xinhua) -- New figures from The Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis (CPB) on Wednesday show a continuation of the recovery of the Dutch economy, following the positive forecast of earlier this week by the national bank DNB.


In the CPB's forecast for June 2015, the Dutch gross domestic product (GDP) is projected to grow by 2.0 percent this year and by 2.1 percent in 2016.


"This positive image is in line with developments elsewhere in Europe, with growth figures for The Netherlands at the upper end of the range," the CPB stated in a press release.


According to the CPB, the real economic growth percentage was -0.7 in 2013 and 0.9 in 2014. On Monday, DNB forecast a growth of 2.0 percent for 2015, 1.8 in 2016 and 2.2 in 2017 in its new mid-year forecast.


"All spending categories will contribute to this recovery," the CPB added. "Relevant world trade will grow by 4.0 percent in 2015 and 5.2 percent in 2016. This fast increase is in keeping with the image of continuing recovery and involves an acceleration of exports. In 2015, household consumption and business investments are also expected to grow."


According to the CPB, unemployment will decrease to 7.0 percent this year and 6.7 percent in 2016, the government budget deficit is expected to drop from 1.9 percent of GDP this year to 0.8 percent in 2016, and inflation will rise from 0.2 percent this year to 1.2 percent in 2016.


"We have now definitely left the crisis behind us," Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem declared. "The numbers get a little better each time. Still, we have to eliminate some misery of the crisis."


HAVANA, June 22 (Xinhua) -- Cuba's gross domestic product (GDP) will register just over 4 percent growth in the first six months of 2015, as forecast, state daily Granma reported Monday.


"Compared with 2014, all (economic) activity registers growth, with the highest figures centered in the sugar industry and manufacturing, construction and trade," the daily said, citing data from Friday's cabinet meeting, at which Minister of Economy and Planning Marino Murillo presented the latest economic indicators.


Areas that registered no growth included mainly transport, warehousing and communications.


In general, "the trade balance shows positive performance during the year," despite external financial pressures, Murillo said.


The state budget is expected to register a fiscal deficit of 4. 2 percent of GDP at the end of the year, lower than the 6.2 percent forecast earlier.


The economy is growing at a "good pace" and the country will be able to "close (the year) well," said Murillo, adding "we must keep working hard."


The Council of Ministers meeting, headed by President Raul Castro, also discussed the drought affecting the island, where reservoirs are at only 37 percent of capacity on average.


The worst hit areas are the eastern provinces of Santiago de Cuba (34 percent) and Guantanamo (36), and the western territory of Pinar del Rio (55).


LOS ANGELES, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) -- Minorities and civil rights leaders in Los Angeles have voiced their concern over the shooting death of two African Americans in Missouri and Los Angeles since August 9.


Karin Wang, Vice President of Asian Americans Advancing Justice -- Los Angeles, the largest legal and civil rights organization for Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders in the U.S., told Xinhua Friday that minorities in the U.S. should make their voices heard to stop police racial profiling and violence as what happened in Missouri and Los Angeles.


Michael Brown, an unarmed African American teen was shot down by police in Ferguson, Missouri on Saturday, Aug. 9, and on Aug. 11, Ezell Ford, another young African American, was shot to death by police, just two days after Brown's.


According to narration from Ford's mother, the young man was lying on the ground and complying with officers when he was shot three times.


Ford is the 16th person to have been shot at by Los Angeles police this year, although in two cases shots were fired but did not injure anyone, according to Liliana Preciado, a spokeswoman for Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD).


Also recently, Eric Garner, an unarmed man selling loose cigarettes, died of a prolonged chokehold by police in New York. People in Florida would remember 17-year-old Travon Martin, also an African American, who was shot to death by a reserve officer.


The death of Brown has roused racial tension and ignited riots, rallies, looting, protests, marches, public mourning and general unrest in Ferguson and protests as well in many other cities in the U.S.


According to Wang, Los Angeles is more diversified and the police have learned a lesson from the 1992 riots. Since then, police in different cities have reach-out programs to local communities to ease tension and seek mutual understanding between the law enforcement and the ethnic groups.


Although progress have been made, problems still remain. She mentioned that occasionally minorities still become targets of police violence and racial profiling because they do not speak good English, in many cases that will cause some misunderstandings.


"We like other ethnic groups are concerned about the police violence and misconduct. As a civil rights organization, we are worried that such things happen," said Wang.


She mentioned that Ford had mental illness and in the past years there have been several cases when African Americans, Asian Americans and Latinos were killed by police because they had mental illness or they did not speak good English to understand the police instructions.


Wang said African Americans are more vulnerable than other ethnic groups to be racially profiled by police, even African Americans like Ford and Brown were unarmed, police would think they were more dangerous and would be more likely to use force a. Cheap Jerseys Wholesale Jerseys From China Wholesale NHL Jerseys Wholesale Hats Wholesale NBA Hats Wholesale MLB Jerseys Wholesale NHL Hats Wholesale Football Jerseys Wholesale MLB T-Shirts Cheap Nike NBA Hoodie