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Lesson #2: Be Relentless
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| “I am a hedonist at heart,” says Cowell. “I love the uncertainty and the challenge. I’m also exceptionally competitive and ambitious. It is relentless, relentless, relentless. I can’t help it. Sometimes I’m glad, sometimes I wish I wasn’t like that all the time. I can never switch off.” |
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Transform Technical Jargon into Reader-Friendly Marketing Materials
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| Turn 50-cent words into 5-cent words. Go through your writing and find every word with three or more syllables. Then try to replace it with one or two shorter words. Of course, sometimes technical jargon needs to be in there. But you can always explain the techie bits using less technical lingo and shorter words.
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Wanted: jobs for Africa’s youth - Time For Action
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| Young people (between 15 and 24 years old) made up 63 per cent of the jobless in sub-Saharan Africa in 2003, even though they constituted just 33 per cent of the labour market. |
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Wanted: jobs for Africa’s youth - ‘Bad policy’
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| Since the mid-1990s, economic performance has improved significantly in many African countries, with average annual growth in gross domestic product (GDP) rising steadily from less than 3 per cent in 1998 to 5 per cent in 2005. In theory, according to many economists, this should have led to higher employment.
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2.2 Sectoral performance I: Economic Report on Africa 2007
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| African economies are experiencing a structural shift whereby the service sector is
becoming an important driver of growth. In 2004, the service sector contributed 49
per cent of GDP growth compared to 36 per cent for industry (including mining
and quarrying) and 15 per cent for agriculture. In 2004, all three sectors continued
to grow, albeit at relatively low rates. The industrial sector had the highest growth
rate at 9.05 per cent, although growth in the manufacturing sector fell by almost 3.8
per cent compared to 2003. Developments within each sector and for each subregion
are discussed in more detail below. |
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2.4 Growth prospects for 2007 and the medium-term outlook: Economic Report on Africa 2007
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| Africa is expected to grow at a rate of 5.8 per cent in 2007, slightly higher than
the rate recorded in 2006 (5.7 per cent) (figure 2.8). Positive growth rates are projected
for all subregions led by North Africa (6.6 per cent), East Africa (6.0 per
cent), Southern Africa (5.4 per cent), West Africa (4.9 per cent) and Central Africa
(3.5 per cent). |
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2.0 The economic context: Support for Growth-oriented Women Entrepreneurs in Tanzania, 2005
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| Tanzania has a population of just over 37 million, a GDP of US$22 billion, and
GDP per capita of US$610.6 An estimated 51 per cent of the population lives below the
poverty line. Eighty per cent of the country’s poor population live in rural areas,
depending on subsistence agriculture and unable to participate in broader markets. Poor
roads, exorbitantly expensive utilities and prohibitive policies have compounded this
problem, significantly impeding the growth of the economy.7 Agriculture, the mainstay
of the economy, is almost 50 per cent of GDP, and small-scale peasant farmers, who
make up 70 per cent of the population, carry out over 80 per cent of agricultural
activities. About 30 per cent of the population over 15 years of age is illiterate (UDEC,
2002). |
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4.0 The state of women’s enterprises in Tanzania: Support for Growth-oriented Women Entrepreneurs in Tanzania, 2005
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| Currently, there is no comprehensive data on the number of women in the MSME
sector, the size of their enterprises, or their distribution by sector. Only proxies are
available. In NISS (1991) women accounted for about 35 per cent of informal
enterprises. By 1995, it was estimated that the proportion of women in the sector could
have risen to 70 per cent of the informal sector labour force. In a 2000 Economic and
Social Research Foundation (ESRF) study, 55 per cent of the enterprises in the sample
were owned by women (as reported in Mlingi, 2000, p. 89). Swisscontact (2003)
estimated that women owned 43 per cent of MSEs. |
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9.3.1 The CRDB Bank: Support for Growth-oriented Women Entrepreneurs in Tanzania, 2005
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| The CRDB Bank, 90 per cent owned by DANIDA (the government still holds 10
per cent of the shares) provides both wholesale and retail lending services. Reportedly, it
has a 40 per cent share of the micro-finance market, with centralized lending provided
through their 24 branches. |
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10.2 Pre-start-up training: Support for Growth-oriented Women Entrepreneurs in Tanzania, 2005
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| Data from a 1997-98 training needs assessment of informal sector operators found
that over 75 per cent of informal sector operators had primary education, while only
seven per cent had attended vocational training courses. Most had acquired their skills in
a variety of trades through apprenticeships or directly from their peers, but were unaware
of the theoretical aspects (reported in Mlingi, 2000, p. 81). Only 5.3 per cent of the MSEs
in the Swisscontact (2003) study had received any entrepreneurship training, and even
fewer in new product technologies or costing and pricing. This suggests that most MSEs
are “learning through trial and error” or from the practical know-how of other operators. |
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Lesson #1: “Personal relationships are always the key to good business”
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| “I guess we keep on trying to look after the people that look after us. If we don't look after one another, we can't win. Now, you don't retain customers unless you have a combination of what I call the TIL principle – trust, integrity and loyalty,” says Fox. “I look at a lot of the people I initially employed. And the aspect of loyalty was 100 per cent. Maybe the ability was 90 per cent, but I'd rather have that than a reverse position of it.” |
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Analyse This? Why all Taxpayers Should Have their Taxes Analysed?
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| In this article we look at Tax analysis and the role it plays as a tool in reducing our taxes and in the whole financial and tax planning process.
As in most countries, the Canadian government gets its revenues from taxation in one form or another. Given all the taxes we pay, either when we earn or when we spend, wouldn't you agree that controlling our taxes is very important? Today, more than 48% of all government revenues are derived from personal income taxes. Did you know that from April to August 2011, personal income taxes revenues increased 6.5 per cent? Corporate taxes rose 6.7 per cent and non-resident tax revenues rose 6.5 per cent over the same period. Tell me. How much did your revenues rise? |
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