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The World’s Next Factory Won’t Be in South Asia
Faced with rising costs, Chinese manufacturers must decide whether to invest in labor-saving automation technologies or to relocate.
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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The Challenges of Going Local: A Medical Device Innovator Faces the Reality of Manufacturing in Rural Africa
Like many enterprises working in emerging markets, Noor Medical wanted to manufacture its product locally. As COO Andrew Bonneau explains, a local approach promised many advantages, from lower costs to a better understanding of its customers. But the company soon learned that manufacturing in developing countries like Uganda is often easier said than done. Bonneau discusses the obstacles the company has faced, and how they've overcome them.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Viewpoint: After the Free Trade Agreement, We Need to Focus on Realizing the African Monetary Fund
Africa is currently the most prominent gap in the evolving global financial safety net.
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- Finance
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Economic ‘Game Changer’? African Leaders Launch Free-Trade Zone
The IMF in a May report described the free-trade zone as a potential “economic game changer” of the kind that has boosted growth in Europe and North America.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund and International Trade Centre ink Memorandum of Understanding for mutual cooperation
Rob Skidmore, Chief, Sector and Enterprise Competitiveness Division of Enterprises and Institutions, ITC, said, “ITC is delighted to combine our knowledge of SME competitiveness and value chains with PPAF’s deep expertise in grass roots development SME competitiveness and improving value chains and PPAF’s deep expertise in grass roots development to make a real difference in the lives of the poor.”
- Region
- South Asia
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African leaders have created the world’s largest free trade area since the WTO—here’s its potential
The agreement has the potential to deliver a great deal for countries on the continent. The hope is that the trade deal will trigger a virtuous cycle of more intra African trade, which in turn will drive the structural transformation of economies – the transition from low productivity and labour intensive activities to higher productivity and skills intensive industrial and service activities—which in turn will produce better paid jobs and make an impact on poverty.
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- poverty alleviation, trade
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India to Block $1.3 Billion Chinese Pharmaceutical Takeover, Sources Say
Tensions between India and China -- the South Asian nation’s biggest trading partner -- have escalated amid a renewed spat over territory in a remote area of the Himalayas, one of the most serious flareups since a border war in 1962.
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- Health Care
- Region
- South Asia
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UNCTAD adviser, Alibaba’s Jack Ma, launches African Young Entrepreneurs Fund
Mr. Ma said that he would also work with UNCTAD help bring 200 budding African businesspeople to his homeland China to learn from Alibaba hands on.
- Categories
- Entrepreneurship
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