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II.a Merchandise Trade: TRADE AND CAPITAL FLOWS BETWEEN CHINA AND AFRICA
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| This section pulls together the information available and attempts to quantify, to the extent
possible, China’s economic engagement with Africa.3 Emerging from the review is a
recognition of China’s multifaceted influence: as market for Africa’s exports, donor,
financer and investor, and contactor and builder. While official financial and technical
assistance predominated in the past, commercial activities, which have increased rapidly in
the last few years, are now dominant in financial terms. |
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A Telemarketer Called Me Recently
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| I had a telemarketer call me recently. Here’s a rough transcript of the conversation. |
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Meetings
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| I had breakfast today with a senior executive who estimates she spends more than 30% of her time in internal meetings. |
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Elephant Math
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| Darwin pointed out that if you take one pair of breeding elephants and make some conservative estimates about their fertility, you would have more than 15 million elephants in less than 500 years (if none of them died an early death.) |
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3.8 Working to end child labour: Working Out of Poverty
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| Ensuring that children have a chance to break out of the cycle of
poverty is a cause that has attracted worldwide support. The latest ILO estimates
for 2000 are that some 352 million children between the ages of 5 and
17 were economically active. |
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The "2Bs": Buffett. Basics.
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| The subprime mess gets nastier by the day. I've seen recent estimates of the fiscal damage alone exceeding $1 trillion. (Not enough pain to reduce Wall Street bonuses, mind you—a record $39 billion in performance-based handouts expected.) |
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Padding Estimates
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| We all know there is a game of padding estimates in most parts of our society. It certainly exists in business. Here are a few helpful thoughts on how you can get more accurate numbers. |
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Is Outsourcing The Right Strategy For Small Businesses During Slow Economy?
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| “When things get tough the tough gets going.” Here the latter word “tough” implies people who equip themselves with the best practices and some added innovation to see through the rough, in this context, the slow economy. Let’s pick outsourcing, as a strategy to counter this rough time and understand whether it is a sensible move to make or not. |
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5 Contractor Selling Techniques to use with Research-Savvy Customers
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| There are many kinds of customers, but the most classic might be the “we’re just shopping" type of customer. When this customer presents him or herself to you, they like to make sure that you know they are “just starting the process” of getting estimates. |
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Acres of Diamonds
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| Your greatest opportunities lie under your own feet. They lie in your intellect, your talent and abilities, your education and experience, as well as with your family members, friends and business contacts. The challenge is that in the rough, a diamond does not look like a diamond that we are familiar with. It looks like a black, rough piece of rock and must be cut, shaped and polished repeatedly before it glistens like the valuable stone that it is. |
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Are You A Winner?
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| Do you know exactly what a winner is? Do you take responsibility for your actions? When the going gets rough? Do you get going?
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