Category: Business and economics

Americas, Business and economics, Society and culture

A New Idea to Improve Lives of Amazonian Indigenous People: Social Innovation

Many years from now, as she faces her rebuilt home, Dalia will recall the massive fire that swept the city hilltop in November 2016. At that time, Cantagallo was a slum in the sandy wasteland just a few blocks away from the Peruvian capital Lima’s main square, where hundreds of families of the Shipibo-Konibo community lived. They lost everything in this fire that went through … Continue reading A New Idea to Improve Lives of Amazonian Indigenous People: Social Innovation

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Africa, Business and economics, China

Market Research Report on African Handicrafts in the Chinese Market

Executive summary China and Africa have a long history of economic cooperation. However, there still exists controversy that China’s strong productivity hampers African exports from its huge and promising market, and the trade imbalance between the two sides is deteriorating. Generally speaking, African manufacturing is not able to compete with its counterpart in China. However, the niche market of African handicrafts may enjoy some peculiarities. … Continue reading Market Research Report on African Handicrafts in the Chinese Market

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Africa, Business and economics, China, Chinese, Politics

研究报告：埃塞俄比亚中国企业应对国际媒体、建立企业形象的对策研究

中埃经济合作始于1971年，到2017年双边贸易额达到30.2亿美元。中国是埃塞第一大贸易伙伴、第一大投资来源国和第一大工程承包方。 埃塞俄比亚投资委员会公布的数据显示，从2012年1月至2017年1月，有279家中国企业在埃塞开展业务活动。这279家中企在埃塞登记的注册资金达5.72亿美元，为埃塞创造了约两万个长期工作岗位和8000多个临时性工作岗位。 Continue reading 研究报告：埃塞俄比亚中国企业应对国际媒体、建立企业形象的对策研究

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Africa, Business and economics, China, Gender, Labor

Can Making Artwork Empower Women in Kenya? A Dispatch from Three Organizations

“No one is too poor to give away something, and I want to help poor women,” said an educator who has been working on empowering women by teaching them how to make handicraft for eight years in Kenya. Low educational attainment and social status keep many women at the bottom cadres of the labor force and marginal roles of the economy in many African countries. … Continue reading Can Making Artwork Empower Women in Kenya? A Dispatch from Three Organizations

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Africa, Asia, Business and economics, Labor

The Kenya Construction Industry Trade Union: A Friend for African Workers, a “Stranger” for Chinese Companies

“Trade unions always incite workers to make trouble, and ask us for more money. They really cause me a headache.” That is the commonly held perception of trade unions by project managers of Chinese construction companies in Kenya. According to the Kenya Labor Relations Act, a trade union is an association of employees whose principal goal is to regulate relations between employees and employers. Employees … Continue reading The Kenya Construction Industry Trade Union: A Friend for African Workers, a “Stranger” for Chinese Companies

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