{"id":52179,"date":"2016-12-02T16:42:31","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T15:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/comunicati\/2016\/12\/diplomazia-economica-italiana-02-2\/"},"modified":"2016-12-02T16:42:31","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T15:42:31","slug":"diplomazia-economica-italiana-02-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/approfondimenti\/2016\/12\/diplomazia-economica-italiana-02-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy&#8217;s Economic Diplomacy &#8211; 2 December: latest news from the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Africa: Second annual\u00a0PIDA Week on infrastructure development in Abidjan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Abidjan hosted the second annual PIDA Week, an event\u00a0promoted by the African Development Bank to present the Programme for Infrastructure Development (PIDA). in Africa. This year\u2019s\u00a0event was organized under the theme, &#8220;Creating Jobs through Regional Infrastructure Development.&#8221; The week comprised\u00a0four thematic sessions and namely: Pida Energy; PIDA ICT ; Pida Transport ; Pida Water. The programme has a value of\u00a0 nearly 21 billion dollars, of which 12 billion dollars\u00a0 will be\u00a0allocated to the energy sector and 9 billion\u00a0 dollars to the\u00a0establishment\u00a0 and upgrade of intra-regional corridors to improve the\u00a0 infrastructure\u00a0network\u00a0with a view to increasing\u00a0commercial trade in Africa. Since February 2016, one of PIDA&#8217;s priorities has been the creation or transformation of intra-regional corridors into &#8220;Smart (Safety, Mobility, Automated, Real-time Traffic Management) Corridors&#8221; to optimise commercial transport and favour contacts among the\u00a0countries in the continent.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Turkey: Islamic Development \u00a0Bank allocates 334 mln dollars for high-speed trains<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Islamic Development Bank will allocate 312 million euros (334 million dollars) to finance the building of 10 high-speed trains, which will\u00a0run on the\u00a0Ankara-Istanbul route. According to the Bank, the new project is designed to\u00a0divert the\u00a0heavy passenger traffic\u00a0on the\u00a0Ankara-to -stanbul route from road to rail,\u00a0 and to meet the\u00a0transport demand\u00a0that is expected to\u00a0grown\u00a0from the current 5.6 milion passengers to 13.9 million by 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Africa: Second annual\u00a0PIDA Week on infrastructure development in Abidjan Abidjan hosted the second annual PIDA Week, an event\u00a0promoted by the African Development Bank to present the Programme for Infrastructure Development (PIDA). in Africa. This year\u2019s\u00a0event was organized under the theme, &#8220;Creating Jobs through Regional Infrastructure Development.&#8221; The week comprised\u00a0four thematic sessions and namely: Pida Energy; [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-52179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-approfondimenti","tag-diplomazia-economica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}