Development
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Micro credit: A Catalyst in Economic Development |
| While rich and urban middle class Eritreans who benefit from easy bank loans are busy buying homes and cars, hundreds and thousands of farmers in the countryside have virtually no access to credit.... |
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Globalization Slips Through Africa |
| Any nation needs a strong cultural identity to inspire confidence, courage and creativity, which are prerequisites of establishing competitive world-class organizations and products... |
Q&A
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Turning Dreams into Reality |
| All taxi operators should join hands and come up with a taxi training institution that will enhance the capacity of taxi owners. The institution can train all those in this industry on various aspects such as business management, customer care and what to expect in the field.... |
Regions
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Red Tape Repressing SA Tourism |
| Creating a more efficient and less onerous regulatory environment can reduce barriers to entry for entrepreneurs and help ensure that human and financial resources are spent on developing goods, services and skills.... |
Profiles
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History of Nouakchott |
| The city is located on a plateau near the West African Atlantic coast, about 270 miles (435 km) north-northeast of Dakar, Senegal. As a tiny fishing town until 1958, it is possible that the Berber Muslim Almoravids are originally from the area.... |
Commentary
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Politics Vs the Market: Which Way to Go? |
| If you discovered a better, solution to Africa’s poverty, would you take your plan to a private firm where you would get an OK and a check in three days or to the government where your plan could be bottled up in a committee for three years-and would not be implemented by you?... |
Finance and Banking
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Joint Wealth Acquisition: The New Art of Doing Business |
| The pace at which investment clubs have sprang up shows the reversing trend in the equity market. We have had consortiums of all ages; lifestyles and career backgrounds emerge and jointly amass so much wealth.... |
News Round Up
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Bank to Improve Corporate Governance in Africa |
| The African Development Bank is organizing its first consultative meeting of Stakeholders and Development Partners on Corporate Governance in Africa. The consultative meeting will provide an opportunity to review the overall status of corporate governance in African countries.... |
Agriculture
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Pesticide Action Network is Preying on the Hungry! |
| Africa cannot afford the luxury of Pesticide Action Network’s debate against technologies that will make the continent feed her people and make many to join the middle class.... |
Report
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Africa Has to Learn Markets |
| Africa has been far more passive than other regions of the world, which have aggressively gone into world markets, committed funds and staff to study those markets, found gaps in trade law, learnt the rules of packaging, the details of sanitary standards and built relationships with retail chains.... |
