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Moringa News - an international network

Moringanews is an international network of people interested in Moringa. Their web site offers reliable information [...] [...more]

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African traders tap into technology - Trade Net in Ghana

Mobile phones are making trade more efficient around Africa. In many cases, merchants are able to lower their prices while increasing their profits, simply because they have access to important information that affects their businesses. A company called Tradenet is tapping into this growing need. Christian Purefoy has this report from Ghana. To view the CNN Video [...] [...more]

Countries, Ghana, News, Sectors, Telecoms, Trade Comments (16)

West Africa Trade Hub - making trade happen

    Increasing non-traditional exports and removing barriers to trade. Through USAID’s African Global Competitiveness Initiative, we’re connecting West Africa with the global market - including the U.S. under the African Growth and Opportunities Act (AGOA). We have two locations: Accra, Ghana and Dakar, Senegal   [...more]

Countries, Ghana, Sectors, Senegal, Trade Comments (0)

West Africa Business Association WABA

THE WEST AFRICA BUSINESS ASSOCIATION (WABA) A PARTNERSHIP IN DEVELOPMENT The West Africa Business Association believes that a successful business sector in West Africa creates wealth and plays a crucial [...] [...more]

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Trade for a better world

Trade should be everybody’s business as it involves us all, whatever we do, wherever we live, every day. It’s an integral part of thinking globally. Stop for a moment and think about the tea or coffee you drank this morning, the car you drove to work or dropped off the children at school, the computer you [...] [...more]

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Fair Trade - a Co-operative Revolution

Fair trade is a system of world trade based on mutual respect. It is about retailers, distributors and consumers in the North co-operating with producers in the South to provide a fair price for a fair product. A fair price to cover the producer’s costs, basic needs and a margin for investment, with part of the [...] [...more]

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Franchising - what is it?

The term ‘franchising’ has been used to describe many different forms of business relationships, including licensing, distributor and agency arrangements.The more popular use of the term has arisen from the development of what is called ‘business format franchising’. Business format franchising is the granting of a licence by one person (the franchisor) to another (the franchisee), [...] [...more]

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Jeffrey Sachs’s $200 Billion Dream - Vanity Fair article

Jeffrey Sachs—visionary economist, savior of Bolivia, Poland, and other struggling nations, adviser to the U.N. and movie stars—won’t settle for less than the global eradication of extreme poverty. And he hasn’t got a second to waste. by Nina Munk July 2007, Vanity Fair In the respected opinion of Jeffrey David Sachs—distinguished Quetelet Professor [...] [...more]

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China - good for Africa?

The International Herald Tribune’s global economics columnist, Daniel Altman, moderated an online discussion between readers and Jeffrey Sachs, the Columbia University professor who is director of the Earth Institute as well as a former director of the United Nations Millennium Project, which seeks to reduce extreme poverty.   Question by Jean Bachir Ghabache, France   “Where do you [...] [...more]

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Fair Trade with Africa - what guarantees?

The International Herald Tribune’s global economics columnist, Daniel Altman, moderated an online discussion between readers and Jeffrey Sachs, the Columbia University professor who is director of the Earth Institute as well as a former director of the United Nations Millennium Project, which seeks to reduce extreme poverty. Question by Toni Nathan, Japan “How can you guarantee ‘fair [...] [...more]

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