Development
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One Finger Cannot Kill a Louse! |
| Companies based in the developing world have long experience of working with low-income communities, while others are increasingly encountering poverty as they seek new markets. Companies also encounter relative poverty among the poorest sections of society in the developed world, where many cannot afford the products and services that average earners take for granted.... |
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The “Pain” of Starting a Business |
| What are the procedures, time, and cost involved in launching a commercial or industrial firm with up to 50 employees and start-up capital of 10 times the economy's per-capita Gross National Income (GNI)?... |
Q&A
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Debts that Profit |
| Credit can be a means to improving businesses. Investors should not hesitate to get loans from Micro-finance Institutions or banks. Many low resource farmers and business men have benefited.... |
Profiles
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History of Seychelles |
| Seychelles lies in the western part of the Indian Ocean, north of Madagascar and 1,593km (995 miles) east of Mombasa, Kenya. It is between 4 and 5 degrees south of the equator at a longitude between 55 and 56 degrees east. The country is an isolated archipelago of outstanding natural beauty comprising about 115 islands.... |
Commentary
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Downward Trodden But Upward Bound |
| There is no denying the fact that women have made tremendous advances globally and in Africa in the past few years. There are many visible pointers in the growing numbers of women in top political positions including Ministers, Members of Parliament, and in the judiciary.... |
Finance and Banking
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KenGen: The Tipping Point |
| As you put your fortune in this Initial Public Offering, it may pay out to check what the secondary market has to offer. As many investors divest with the hope of cashing in on Kengen, the low prices of other stocks may pay out if bought at their lows during this period.... |
Events
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The 4th East Africa Media Training |
| Journalists from Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya trooped in at the Pan Afric hotel for the 4th East Africa Media Training meeting on Conquering Poverty through Business in Eastern Africa last evening.... |
Health
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Rachel…Still Crying for Her Children |
| No other insecticide, and no bed net – at any price – works as well as DDT. Sprayed in small quantities, just once or twice a year on the walls and eaves of mud-and-thatch or cinder-block homes, keeps 90% of mosquitoes from entering. It irritates any that do enter, so they rarely bite, and kills those that land on walls.... |
Feature
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Taking the Driver’s Seat |
| “Many problems Africa faces are a result of standing aloof and letting other people do the solving. We need locally generated solutions to our problems. A nation can only achieve its best future and its brightest potential when all of its citizens, men and women, participate in the government and in decision-making,” says Benta Oswago.... |
Agriculture
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Pesticides: The Third World War |
| Anti-pesticide and anti-business campaigners do not have realistic answers to the problems which trouble them. They look only for ways to attack what they see as their enemy: intensive agriculture, using inputs from large, international companies. Although they claim to have the interests of the poor at heart, achieving their goals would reduce global food security and severely disadvantage these very people.... |
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Trapped in the Precautionary Eclipse |
| Let Africans use chemicals judiciously to fight poverty and disease. Any deaths attributable to international conventions that prevent Africa fighting its own diseases and famine should be investigated and brought to the international court of justice.... |
