MEDI1TV Afrique : JT Economie - 11/03/2025
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00:00Thank you for joining us on Medihan, and welcome to this new bulletin of Economic News.
00:13Heritage Institute has just updated its annual ranking on economic freedom in the world.
00:20It stands out that among its 76 countries and territories, Morocco occupies the first place in the North African region.
00:28In its 31st edition of its annual ranking, the American Reflection Group reveals that the kingdom ranks 7th in Africa and 96th in the world.
00:39Morocco owes its ranking to its performance, among other things, in terms of investment freedom criteria, financial freedom, monetary freedom and tax burden.
00:48If Morocco far exceeds the average for 8 of the 12 indicators, however, it must make progress in terms of labor freedom, budgetary solidity, government integrity and judicial efficiency.
01:01For this edition, the world ranking is dominated by Singapore with 84.1 points, Switzerland with 83.7 points and Ireland with 83.1 points.
01:13Opposed to Honduras, countries not studied, countries where economic freedoms are almost non-existent are Sudan, Zimbabwe, Venezuela, Cuba and North Korea.
01:25In national economic news as well, on Monday, prices for household consumption in the city of Tonga increased by 0.8% in January compared to December 2024 and 2% in an annual slide.
01:39According to an information note from the High Commissioner for Plans, the index of food products prices increased by 1.9% last January compared to December.
01:49Due to the increase in vegetable prices by 6.9%, non-classified food products by 2.4%, fish and seafood by 2% and red meat by 1.8%.
02:03The monthly variation of the index of non-food products, on the other hand, decreased by 0.1% due to the decrease in the prices of communication divisions by 0.8%, transport by 0.4%, clothing and shoe items and various goods and services by 0.1%.
02:23On a no, the index of food products prices increased by 3.1% in January.
02:30Now let's move on to international economic news. German industrial production soared more than expected in January, while exports were once again disappointed by the threat of American customs rights.
02:43According to the Statistical Institute of Statistics, country industrial production increased by 2% in January over a month, after a decline in December of 1.5%, slightly seen up.
02:56On the export side, they reached 129.2 billion euros, or 2.5% less than in December. On a no, industrial production remains in decline of 3.1%, symbol of the crisis of the sector slowed by high energy prices and the decline of global demand.
03:16Exports to the United States, the country's first trading partner, fell by 4.2% compared to December. Imports, on the other hand, climbed from 1.2% to 113.1 billion euros, reducing the German trade surplus to 16 billion euros, against 20.7 billion in January.
03:40We continue our daily in China. Consumption prices fell in February, a first in a year. The index of consumption prices, a key indicator of inflation, reached 0.7% in a year in February, according to the National Bureau of Statistics.
03:58This is the first fall in consumption prices since January 2024, when they fell by 0.8% over a year, their strongest contraction in 14 years. In January, the index remained positive and had even reached a new level in several months, at 0.5% due to the expenses of the lunar new year.
04:21The second world economy is facing a persistent crisis in the real estate sector, which undermines the confidence of economic players, which hinders household expenses, plagues consumption and investments, maintaining the spectrum of deflation.
04:37In conclusion, our daily in Japan. The government has started a rare sale of grains from its strategic rice reserves, designed to respond to emergency situations in order to counter the persistent influx of prices of this basic food in the country.
04:55Faced with a stronger demand, rice prices have recorded a record high of 71.8% over a year in January, according to official figures. To curb these trends, the government announced in mid-February that it had decided to unlock its strategic rice reserves by putting up to 210,000 tons on the market.
05:16Japan currently stores about 1 million tons of rice for emergency situations. The country had promulgated laws in 1995 to create strategic rice stocks, after a very bad rice harvest two years earlier pushed consumers to rush into supermarkets.