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The Great Geopolitical Battle Over Energy Transit Routes
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| An extraordinary game of Geo-strategy is underway to lock in long term agreements in the energy sector. At a global level, the transit routes of future oil & gas pipelines become the object of a power struggle involving not only the suppliers and end-users but also the transit countries. |
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Markets Ready to Bounce and Go Higher!
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| Commodities & Stocks Ready to Bounce or Rally? |
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10 Steps to Launching a Green Business
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| Green could be the largest economic opportunity of the 21st century. We'll get a clean environment because entrepreneurs will make it happen.
John Doerr
1951 -Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist
In fact today, most things (authentically) “going green” are looking very promising. For example, one of the mainstream issues on everyone’s mind is energy. And of the many things being developed in the energy sector, one segment to really watch in the very short term is nanotechnology.
Perhaps it’s time for you to consider ramping up your green factor?
10 Steps to Determining Your Green Product / Service |
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5.9 Applying lessons learned from Uganda in South Africa: Enterprise solutions to poverty
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| Based on what we learned in Uganda through UEF
(including the convening power that the Shell
brand had with local banks) we established ETEF,
our South African fund, with new financial
products and an independent intermediary in the
form of an independent fund manager with
particular expertise in the small-scale energy sector
in place from the start. |
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5.9 Applying lessons learned from Uganda in South Africa: Enterprise solutions to poverty
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| Based on what we learned in Uganda through UEF
(including the convening power that the Shell
brand had with local banks) we established ETEF,
our South African fund, with new financial
products and an independent intermediary in the
form of an independent fund manager with
particular expertise in the small-scale energy sector
in place from the start. |
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2.2 Sectoral performance II: Economic Report on Africa 2007
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| The industrial sector |
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Ending poverty means abandoning charity and accepting reality
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| Benin Mwangi, who blogs about doing business in Africa, asked me recently: "should the discussion be about how to get the informal sector to become part of the formal sector or should it be how to cater to the informal sector?" This in an excursion into the morass of African poverty and development.
The short answer is: neither; ending poverty has nothing to do with the informal sector.
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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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2.2 Sectoral performance III: Economic Report on Africa 2007
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| The energy sector |
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5.5 Energy access as market failure: Enterprise solutions to poverty
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| In sub-Saharan African countries as in other poor
regions, development of the SME sector in energy
and other segments is constrained by market failure. |
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Unleashing entrepreneurship: Making business work for the poor
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| There has been a big change in the United Nations's engagement with the private sector influenced by its stewardship of the Millennium Development Goals. It was the urgent need to enhance the contribution of the private sector in achieving the MDGs that prompted Secretary General Kofi Annan to appoint a commission to examine how the role of the private sector in this major global effort could be maximized. |
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10 Steps to Launching a Green Business
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| Green could be the largest economic opportunity of the 21st century. We'll get a clean environment because entrepreneurs will make it happen.
John Doerr
1951 -Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist
In fact today, most things (authentically) “going green” are looking very promising. For example, one of the mainstream issues on everyone’s mind is energy. And of the many things being developed in the energy sector, one segment to really watch in the very short term is nanotechnology.
Perhaps it’s time for you to consider ramping up your green factor?
10 Steps to Determining Your Green Product / Service |
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About.com’s Martin Murray’s post “Non-Profit Organization Suing ERP Supplier” A Sign of the Times?
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| In a white paper that I had written in 2007 titled “SAP Procurement for Public Sector” I had highlighted how the challenges with failed ERP-centric initiatives extended beyond the public sector to include the private sector. The difference as one senior Colgate-Palmolive executive told me shortly after scrapping a failed program was that “unlike the public sector in which a failed initiative becomes front page news, private sector company ERP failures rarely make a blip on the media’s collective radar screen.”
The lack of media awareness notwithstanding, the frequency of failures in the private sector is comparable to the number of setbacks that occur in the public sector. |
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Your Renewable Energy
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| Are you fueling your life and passions with “renewable energy”? Renewable Energy is considered to: be energy generated from natural resources; or energy that is replenished at the same rate it is used; energy coming from sources that can be replenished; or even energy produced from inexhaustible sources.
As I thought about this topic and thought about Winter in Michigan, staying indoors or bundling up to go out, I was reminded that Spring will be here soon.
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Green Power; A Home Built Headache?
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| One of the primary focuses of anyone looking to live a greener lifestyle is of course, energy. Energy consumption is something that we simply cannot avoid. At home and at work, we are almost always using up some form of energy. The goal of many people ( and hopefully yourself) is to find alternative energy sources for the energy we need. Ideally, this green power source should not only be more environmentally friendly, it should also be cheaper than the current energy source. So just where do we find these
alternative energy sources? |
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Being in The Zone, being in The Flow is Being Charismatic
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| This week I delivered a half-day session on Charismatic Leadership to The Ella Foundation, established by Brian Chernett, created to inspire more leaders in the not for profit sector to be more effective and successful. Nearly 30 leaders from different registered charities participated in a way that was subtly different to leaders within the corporate sector. These men and women showed a real passionate intensity for their cause that was truly inspiring. Their minds were open and receptive to my techniques meaning that the exercises we did regarding energy were really advanced because their attitude to learning was untainted by cynicism. |
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