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Need for Project Formulation
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| Taking a first look carefully and critically at the project idea. Assessment of the various aspects of an investment proposition. |
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SMEs - are African governments doing it right
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| An overview of government interventions in Africa and other developing countries intended to assist SMEs |
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SMEs the difference between entrepreneurs and franchisees
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| There is a vast difference between a franchisee and an entrepreneur. what is the impact thereof? |
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III.c. Linking into B2B Supply Chains: E-COMMERCE AND SMALL ENTREPRENEURS
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| For countries undergoing rapid structural transformation, the expansion of industrial
employment still holds vast potential for raising living standards of the poor. To what extent
can the Internet and e-commerce serve to raise productivity and competitiveness in the
industrial sectors of developing countries? |
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III.b. E-Commerce and Primary Commodity Markets: E-COMMERCE AND SMALL ENTREPRENEURS
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| Most low-income developing countries continue to be primary commodity exporters
(including oil, gas and other minerals, and agricultural products). Thus, short of wholesale
diversification into manufactures and services, their immediate interest is in how
e-commerce may affect competitiveness in their traditional export markets. |
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III. E-COMMERCE AND SMALL ENTREPRENEURS
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| The share of value added that potentially lends itself to electronic commerce represents
around 30 per cent of GDP, most importantly distribution, finance, and business services
(Pérez-Esteve and Schuknecht, 1999). E-commerce is also likely to boost international
flows of many services significantly. |
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Preface - E-COMMERCE FOR DEVELOPMENT: PROSPECTS AND POLICY ISSUES
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| The OECD has been a pioneer in addressing the challenges and opportunities of
electronic commerce and the digital economy in the industrialised countries. It is natural
then that the Development Centre should assess the scope for e-commerce in developing
countries. But like the sailors in the strait of Messina, the research should avoid at once
the scylla of technological pessimism — seeing an inevitably widening “digital divide”
between industrialised and developing countries — and the charybdis of exaggerated
claims about the Internet’s potential to resolve a host of development problems that have
heretofore proved intractable. |
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HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT AND ATTRACTING INWARD FDI
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| One of the characteristics of rich industrial economies is the availability of a
workforce with a high level of human capital. Whether human capital has been the key
driver of economic prosperity or vice-versa is still a matter of debate. Nevertheless, long
time series trends in educational attainment and economic growth during the last century
indicate that HRD and economic prosperity went hand in hand10. Some developing
countries followed similar trends in human capital and economic growth. What was
distinctive about these developing countries is that they appeared to have realised large
economic benefits in attracting MNEs into host economies, and have thus mobilised
inward FDI to attain rapid economic growth. |
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Sectoral Trends of FDI in Developing Countries: Background
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| The recent waves of globalisation have substantially transformed the modes of
production and trade in both developed and developing countries. This is reflected in the
changes in the extent of information and technology in the workplace, firm’s production
and organisational strategies, trade and FDI liberalisation policies, and new rules of
international trade and investment. Given these developments, the sectoral trends
(primary, manufacturing and services) in FDI have changed rapidly over the past two
decades. |
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Introduction: HUMAN CAPITAL FORMATION AND FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
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| Human resource development (HRD) and foreign direct investment (FDI) are
among the key drivers of growth in developed and developing countries. |
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Market access: Provisions of Agreement on Agriculture
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| An often-mentioned problem of developing countries’ agricultural export has been the lack
of access to developed countries' markets, due to the institution of a myriad of import
controls and other restrictions. This has largely undermined the growth prospects of
developing countries whose development strategy relied on agricultural exports. |
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3.0 Community action for decent work and social inclusion: Working Out of Poverty
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| Global and national strategies for poverty reduction should provide a
framework for local strategies to escape cycles of low incomes from work
and social exclusion. The ILO has considerable practical experience of community
actions that create more and better jobs for women and men living in
poverty and improve their chances of securing a life free from deprivation.
Much of this work is in developing countries, but these approaches have also
proved to be easily applicable in a number of transition and industrialized
market economies. |
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The A to Z of Small Business Sales - Loyalty Part 2 - Loyalty Starts With People
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| You cannot buy loyalty. Loyalty is something that is earned every day and through relationships. The small business owner should ask "What can I Do to be loyal to customers and employees?". President Kennedy asked a similar type question forty years ago - "Ask not what your country can do for you ... ask what you can do for your country." |
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The Challenges of International Relations in an Internet World
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| The internet obliterates country borders. News announced anywhere is available everywhere. Understanding the global impact and reach of your announcement can aid you in developing a strategic plan that works. |
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4.2 Diversification regimes in Africa: Economic Report on Africa 2007
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| Analysing the various diversification indices and the structure of the top ten export
commodities for selected countries over the last two decades and a half provides
some useful insights which can be used to define diversification regimes that characterize
Africa. Five diversification regimes can be identified from Africa’s experience
(see Ben Hammouda et al. 2006b). These regimes should not be viewed as steps
or as a continuum that a country must follow as it moves from a concentrated to
a diversified economy. Rather, the regimes are a result of the policy actions that a
country has set in place over a given period of time. The particular regime that a
country falls into is likely to be the result of a mix among the various diversification
determinants. |
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Empirical Evidence: Does Human Capital Matter?
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| Although the theoretical literature on FDI presumes human capital to be among the
key ingredients of inward FDI (Dunning, 1988; Lucas, 1990; and Zhang and Markusen,
1999), there are only few cross-country analyses done to identify the determinants of
inward FDI in developing countries. |
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Moving Forward: Developing Countries
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| There are many economic, social, and environmental challenges along
the path to sustainable development, and there is no panacea to address
them all. Rather, accelerated development will require progress in multiple
policy areas, with the right policy mix and focus varying from country
to country. Countries may also need to make difficult choices regarding
trade-offs between competing policy objectives. Achieving more sustainable
development will thus require a concerted effort from developing
countries, the international community, and the international financial
institutions. |
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NAKS - Spreading Knowledge
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| The NAKS have started their new chain of preschools in the country and decided to take in all around the country by this month end. The first preschool named ‘I Play I Learn’ was started this April and has gained popularity in no time. |
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Gross National Happiness
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| Did you know there is a country in our world that actually measures the condition of the country on the happiness of its people |
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Developing People ~ A Key to Eliciting Excellence
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| There is tremendous opportunity and satisfaction as a leader in developing others. By effectively developing the people around us, we elicit excellence in a number of impactful and far-reaching ways. Developing others is an important function of effective leadership. |
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Outsourcing and IT Services
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| Outsourcing is the practice of getting services at cheaper cost from another organization or country than possible in our own country or organization. |
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Great ways To Enhance Your Personal Development
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| It is a good idea to focus some of your attention to your own personal development. From developing a healthier lifestyle, to developing better spending habits. Doing some work on yourself will simply make you happier. You never really stop developing as a person because you constantly evolve and times change |
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