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LIMA cheap adidas superstar , May 7 (Xinhua) -- Peru plans to tout investment opportunities in infrastructure and public services during a three-country tour in Asia, Peruvian investment promotion agency ProInversion announced on Thursday.

Peru's 2015 Asia Road Show kicks off on May 11 in China's Beijing, then travels to Tokyo, Japan for a May 13 presentation, and wraps up in Seoul, South Korea on May 14, the agency said in a statement.

The show will mount expositions in each city and hold meetings with potential investors interested in public-private sector partnerships opportunities in Peru adidas superstar sale , the agency said.

"Companies in these markets have the technical and financial capacity, and the experience needed," ProInversion said.

China, Japan and South Korea are Asia's main economies, in terms of gross domestic product, and Peru is already associated with them through the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum (APEC), as well as through free trade agreements adidas superstar shoes , the agency said.

For Peru, it is important to carry out "promotion in these three countries, providing entrepreneurs with the information that will allow them to decide whether to participate," the agency said.

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ACCRA, May 20 (Xinhua) -- The government of Ghana expressed great optimism here on Wednesday about the prospects of the recovery of the country's economy.

Minister of Finance Seth Terkper said the economy was set to recover at a quicker pace than many had projected.

The minister made this projection during a forum that saw captains of industry, commerce, policy makers adidas superstar pink , technocrats and ordinary citizens attending.

Ghana's economic growth, which peaked at around 15 percent in 2011, declined to about 4.4 percent in 2014.

However, Terkper was optimistic that the economy would soon return to the winning ways and experience the 8 percent growth and above based on the analysis of some indicators.

But for this to see reality, the minister said discipline was required, adding that discipline was non-negotiable in the scheme of things in the economy.

"We either discipline ourselves or dissipate the opportunities that will arise when the economy shows any gain," he stressed.

Some of the indicators that made the minister upbeat were the debt sustainability in the face of current global challenges.

According to him adidas superstar white , over the last few weeks, over 3 billion Ghana Cedis (811 million U.S. dollars) of the country's total debt had been cleared.

The payment of the debt will significantly reduce the pressure on government in the servicing of other existing loans and financial agreements, said the minister.

Fiscal slippage for three continuous years has forced the government to enter into a three-year program with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to resuscitate the lowering embers of growth and fiscal discipline in budget implementation.

Wage bill to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) ratio, which stood at 8.9 percent in 2012, came down steadily to 8.3 percent at the end of last year.

"It is expected that this will further decline to 7.7 percent in 2015," Terkper projected, as wage bill arrears cleared as a ratio to tax revenue has declined from 68.2 percent in 2012 to 52. 1 percent in 2014 as government projects to bring it down further to 46.1 percent at the end of this year.

However adidas superstar black , in spite of these achievements, the minister conceded that progress in reducing fiscal deficit had been slow, partly due to the two-year long shortage in gas supply from the West African Gas Pipeline to power part of Ghana's energy plants.

Terkper said commodity price shocks, namely the decline in gold and cocoa prices, which affected government revenue, as well as the current projected shortfall in oil prices were some of the causes of the fiscal challenges.

"Given government's commitment to fiscal consolidation, the 2015 budget outlines additional measures and reforms which form a significant part of the measures in the program with the IMF.

"These measures in addition to earlier ones are expected to result in a significant reduction in fiscal deficit to ensure debt sustainability and macroeconomic stability adidas superstar gold ," the minister added.

In a quick intervention, Governor of the Bank of Ghana, Henry Kofi Wampah, reiterated the commitment of the central bank not to finance government's fiscal deficit beyond 5.0 percent of the previous year's budgeted revenue.

WASHINGTON, May 10 (Xinhua) -- Former NBA star Tracy McGrady made his professional baseball debut on Saturday.

He started as the pitcher for the Sugar Land Skeeters, allowing two runs in 1 23 innings during the 5-3 loss to the Somerset Patriots.

McGrady was a seven-time All-Star player in NBA. He had won two scoring titles as an NBA player.

HO CHI MINH CITY, June 17 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam will center investment on some 50 athletes in the five sports of track and field adidas superstar silver , gymnastics, shooting, swimming and weightlifting, local newspaper Tien Phong (Pioneer) on Wednesday quoted a sports official as saying.

Vietnam has prominent athletes in the five sports who are hoped to win medals at Olympic Games, said Tran Duc Phan, deputy general director of the country' s General Department of Sports and Physical Training.

Vietnam will not focus investment on taekwondo athletes like it has done, Phan said adidas superstar , explaining that it is hard for them to gain medals at Olympic Games. "At Olympic London 2012, even South Korea, the birthplace of taekwondo, did not grab taekwondo medals," he said.

Vietnam made its Olympic debut at the 1980 Moscow Games, but the country had to wait 20 years for its first Olympic medal, a silver won by taekwondo athlete Tran Hieu Ngan in the women's 57-kg weight category.

At the 28th Southeast Asia (SEA) Games which concluded on Tuesday in Singapore, Vietnam finished third (after Thailand and Singapore), bagging home 73 golds, 53 s.