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Local Firm Invents Groundnut Sheller
TONNET Enterprise, a local agro-processing firm, has come up with an improved manually-operated groundnut sheller. The sheller removes pods and is cost-effective for farmers who produce groundnuts in large quantities. It is capable of shelling between 300 to 400 kilogrammes of groundnuts per hour depending on the number of operators, says Robert Mugenyi, a Tonnet technician. The company is located at Kalerwe, Gayaza Road. The sheller is made f...
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The Global Economy’s Immune System
JE: ...First, you had some pretty challenging things to say about the concept behind this magazine. PH: This is a wonderfully ambitious project, and you have a great team to do it with. But let me raise a provocative question around the title, Value. The magazine is wrapped around a concept of ?inclusive capitalism.? Does this mean a variant of capitalism? And if so, I?m curious to know what the ?keepers? are and what is being put aside. I?m also more than a little concerned about th...
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More schools are developing MBA programs for socially-minded students.
The teaching of social enterprise or entrepreneurship as an option in MBA programmes is putting down new roots in Europe and broadening its focus in its original home, the US. Old assumptions - in particular, that the only way for people to be do-gooders was through a career at a non-profit organisation - are being challenged by 21st century realities. Thus the...
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Too Poor to Save?
Stuart Rutherford reveals the results of the Financial Diaries project and his experiences in the field. Q: Aren’t poor people too poor to save? Stuart Rutherford: Too poor to save, too poor not to save, that?s the paradox that faces many poor and very poor people. If you?re poor, your income is not just small, it?s probably irregular and unreliable as well. Most of it is quickly spent on essentials. The result is that when you need to buy anything othe...
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Too Many Hurdles for Businesses
Ever since President John Agyekum Kufuor assumed office in 2001, he has traveled extensively, about 156 times around the world. Indeed, arguably, he could be described as Ghana’s number-one tourist of the century. President Kufuor’s explanation for such trips is simple: To woo foreign investors into the country. But while the President gallops over the seas across nations in search for investors to his ’Golden age of business’ Ghana, many companies back home are foldi...
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India Startup Program Debuts
Professionals come together to support the next generation of entrepreneurs. The Bangalore Chapter of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), a global network promoting entrepreneurship, introduced its Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program (EAP) on Tuesday to bring together successful local entrepreneurs with new entrepreneurs to increase their chances of raising institutional funding. Early-stage funding in India has been the bane of would-be entrepreneurs, with starry-eyed ...
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World Leaders Commit to Eradicating African Poverty
Leading figures in the development debate, speaking at the meeting of the World Economic Forum in the Swiss resort of Davos, have pledged to build on the mountain of good will generated last year, and follow through towards the goal of eradicating poverty in Africa. According to a press release from the Forum, they agreed that top priorities for 2006 should include: getting global trade talks back on track, exposing corruption both by givers and recipients, and investing ...
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Energy-Senegal:Theft Casts a Shadow Over Solar Programmes
At a time when concerns about global warming and the need for renewable energy sources are grabbing headlines the world over, it seems particularly regrettable that communities would be afflicted by the theft of solar panels. Yet, this is precisely what is happening in rural areas of Senegal, in West Africa. Just as we’re trying to improve life for rural populations in the interior of the country, evil-minded individuals are attempting to undermine the substanti...
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