Kenya is one of the upcoming economies in East Africa and offers enormous business opportunities for aspirant overseas entrepreneurs. Major opportunities are available in civil and construction works and related consultancy fields. However there are multiple other opportunities available for the aspirants in various other fields, a majority of which is in the service sectors. [...]
Import and Export businesses are also popularly known as International Trade or International Business. USA companies are doing business of over 3 trillion dollars a year in Merchandise sector only, so, we can imagine how much dollars of business in all sectors are doing, out of which 95% is controlled by small businesses. There are [...]
As women entrepreneurship plays an important role in the development and growth of developed countries, the importance of promoting women in economic activities is being increasingly realized in all developing countries, too. Empowering women by bringing them into the mainstream of development and by improving their economic status and providing them with new employment opportunities [...]
South Africa is a colourful country with an equally vibrant and violent history. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is surrounded by both the Atlantic Ocean on the one side and the Indian Ocean on the other. With a large diversity of cultures and languages, two of the eleven official languages recognised in [...]
I’ve been manufacturing jewelry in Bangkok and for years now and I’ve witnessed the prices of Tourmaline rough stay amazingly steady. Recently new factors have precipitated a huge average price hike: Namely the discovery of qualities of tourmaline from Africa and Afghanistan that have truly beautiful and therefore precious colors putting tourmaline in the category [...]
International trade is central to a country’s GDP and sea freight is one of the means by which this takes place. Some of South Africa’s coastal cities, such as Durban, Cape Town and Port Elizabeth rely on sea freight, but before you can bring goods into the country there are a plethora of regulations you [...]
After recently celebrating my company’s record breaking hot streak here at home, my new international business was quickly turning cold.It looks like my American success formula wasn’t working with my foreign partners who kept telling me to think differently in order to compete on their turf. If I only knew then what I know now; [...]
There are many ways to make or loose money on the internet. There is no easier way to waste your money than to get online and buy some second hand get-rich-quick e-book or product. Well. I am not going to sell you any e-book or product, but I am going to give you honest straightforward [...]
Multinational companies (MNCs) are not without benefits, which may be to the government, the economy, and the people or even to itself. Cole (1996) stated that the size of multinational organization is enormous; many of them have total sales well in excess of the GND of many of the world’s nations. Cole also stated that [...]
Most African economies are considered to be unstable either due to political instability or lack of investor appeal. This factor alone (the instability of African economies) means that those in leadership have an uphill task in resuscitating ailing economies.Today, those in power have to consider external factors in their economic recovery strategies. If anything the [...]
