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Changing “Brand Africa”, an International Trade Forum magazine feature
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| The recent issue of the quarterly magazine International Trade Forum, published by the International Trade Centre (ITC), has some great articles on the cover story Changing “Brand Africa”. |
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What's your Africa strategy?
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| Many of us can agree that today, Africa plays a major role in the development of the global economy. The magazine covers and celebrity reports are a small part of how Africa has become a major player. A large part of my consulting work has to do with helping organizations develop an Africa-related strategy which both addresses the customer’s demands AND provides opportunities for Africans. Whether yours is a foreign or Africa-based company, today you MUST have a strategy which communicates your companies position on the Africa-related issues emerging daily. |
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Wall Street, “Africa is Investing’s Final Frontier”
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| I came across an interesting article in Canada’s Globe & Mail entitled, “Africa - Investing’s Final Frontier?“. The piece talks about how Africa has been overlooked, primarily due to the perceived risks associated with putting money into play in Africa. They quote extensively from Merrill Lynch chief investment strategist Richard Bernstein and his thoughts on what makes Africa a potential big hit in the coming years. |
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7 Lessons from Africa’s Successful Entrepreneurs?
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| So far The Benin Epilogue has attempted to tackle several different issues. Key among them have been:
Building awareness about the entrepreneurs behind a few of Africa’s most thriving enterprises
Helping to illustrate why foreign firms should do more foreign direct investment in Africa
Attempting to showcase the diversity that exists in Africa’s business environment
One of the topics which we have not touched on yet, here, is what can a entrepreneur in Africa do to find success?
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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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Blogging Africa into the 21st Century
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| Discussion on Africa’s development is taking a new dimension. Bloggers have joined this debate and are employing new ways to initiate dialogue about Africa’s development round the world. The latest craze that seeks to use technology to push Africa into the 21st Century is the Carnival of Africa Enterprising. This is basically a traveling web magazine or blog that discusses business in Africa. |
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Outsourcing Business Processes to Africa
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| For those of you who have not known me long, you may not have known me long-but you do know that I am crazy about letting others know why they should be doing business in Africa. But people are imperfect, as I wholeheartedly admit that I am an example of human imperfection. It has occurred to me that sometimes in my zest for talking about Africa’s business environments, I may tend to speak in a very general sense. But maybe if you have been on the receiving end of such a conversation, and you have said to yourself-”what type of business in Africa?” or “Africa, I thought that people only go there to help the needy”. |
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Introduction - Abstract - Factors Impeding the Poverty Reduction Capacity of Micro-credit: Some Field Observations from Malawi and Ethiopia
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| Poverty reduction has been identified as the overarching long term goal for most of the development
interventions in Africa, and more recently crystallised in the Millennium Development Goals and
the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD). In Africa, more than 40% of its 750
million people live below the internationally recognized poverty line of $1 a day, and the evidence
is even more worrying for sub-saharan Africa. |
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Africa’s Looming Food Crisis can be Mitigated
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| Images of rioters in Egypt, Senegal, Cameroon, Burkina Faso and Mozambique (among others) clashing with police in protest against soaring food prices and Kenya’s abandoned internally displaced people all tell a similar story: Africa needs to retool its thinking. |
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••••••>GetMeOnTop Free SEO tip of the day: Use the Alt Tag to Assist in Achieving #1 on Google Search
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| Search engine spiders generally will not list your website images unless you rely on the alt tag to give a title to the images you present o your website. Alt tags go beyond showing browsers info about your images and they are part of the search engines Algorithms, helping tell them about important content on your website. Alt tags will also help in raising your websites usability, allowing a web visitor to scroll over a graphic or image with a mouse in order to receive a brief description of what the graphic, illustration or image presentation is. |
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Do you Really Want a Flash Website
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| Sometimes you encounter a website that has moving images that’s self contained Flash website. The other format is slideshow but in slide show the images move slowly as compared to Flash and it is easier to index the images and enter the tags. |
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