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                        Upcoming Trade Missions to Africa Offer Important Business Opportunities   | 
                    
                     
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                      Monday, September 26, 2005  by 
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                      Upcoming Trade Missions to Africa Offer Important Business Opportunities - Corporate Council on Africa President Stephen Hayes is bullish on deepening the U.S.-Africa relationship. The five trade missions we have planned will allow practical steps for doing business in Africa by allowing potential investors to see for themselves the opportunities that are available in growing numbers of African countries. | 
                    
                     
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                        Doing Business in 2005: Removing Obstacle to growth   | 
                    
                     
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                      Thursday, September 22, 2005  by 
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                      Doing Business in 2005 is the second in a series of annual reports investigating the scope and manner of regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. New quantitative indicators on business regulations and their enforcement can be compared across 145 countries—from Albania to Zimbabwe - updates these measures and adds another two sets: registering property and protecting investors. | 
                    
                     
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                        Doing Business in 2004: Understanding Regulation:   | 
                    
                     
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                      Thursday, September 22, 2005  by 
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                      Doing Business in 2004: Understanding Regulation - is the first in a series of annual reports investigating the scope and manner of regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. The present volume compares more than 130 countries, from Albania to Zimbabwe , on the basis of new quantitative indicators of business regulations. The indicators are used to analyze economic outcomes and identify what reforms have worked, where, and why. | 
                    
                     
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                        Tanzania:No small business    | 
                    
                     
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                      Thursday, September 22, 2005  by 
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                      TANZANIA: No small business - Tanzanias government has launched a national microfinance policy which aims to help alleviate poverty and promote development. looks at the details, The Tanzanian government has finally launched a national micro finance policy which aims to boost the income earning capacity of ordinary Tanzanians by facilitating greater access to financial capital and services. | 
                    
                     
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                        Tanzania has good managers but some lack confidence   | 
                    
                     
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                      Thursday, September 22, 2005  by 
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                      Tanzania has many good business managers but some of them lack confidence that they are capable of being as efficient as foreign administrators.The British Council Library and Information Services Manager, Al-Amin Yusuph, said this on Friday evening during the official launching of the British Council Management Forum at a ceremony held in Dar es Salaam. | 
                    
                     
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                        Helping to Improve Donor Effectiveness in Microfinance   | 
                    
                     
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                      Tuesday, September 13, 2005  by 
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                      Microcredit is one of many intervention strategies designed to alleviate poverty, generate income and promote employment. Due to its current popularity among donors, however, microcredit risks becoming a one size fits all intervention solution.In choosing the most appropriate intervention tool for a specific situation, microcredit should be carefully evaluated against the alternatives. | 
                    
                     
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                        Initiative to strengthen businesses   | 
                    
                     
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                      Friday, September 09, 2005  by 
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                      Initiative to strengthen businesses - Arusha Regional Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture (TCCIA) and the Institute of Accountancy Arusha are collaborating to provide practical business training with the aim of strengthening existing and new businesses.  
This new venture aims at helping small to medium sized enterprises compete in the modern market place and understand the demand-driven economy by providing tuition in up-to-date and practical methods that business people can easily adapt and use in their businesses. | 
                    
                     
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                        Taking stock of the state of local government finances and the policy debate on government finances in Tanzania   | 
                    
                     
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                      Monday, September 05, 2005  by 
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                      The Development of a Strategic Framework for the Financing of Local Governments in Tanzania report was prepared by the Georgia State University, International Studies Programme for the Government of Tanzania. The report contains eight (8) components for a strategic framework for local government finance in Tanzania and also indicates how each level of local government should be funded and how each source of local revenue could be optimized. This is Section One of this report and it provides a synopsis of the Government’s local government reform agenda, and the government’s general policy stance with regard to local governance finances. | 
                    
                     
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                        Uzawa: Ruffling feathers in Tanzania   | 
                    
                     
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                      Monday, August 29, 2005  by 
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                      Uzawa: Ruffling feathers in Tanzania - Since the onset of the debate on uzawa (indigenisation) in Tanzania, various articles have appeared in different Kiswahili newspapers written by several writers. Some of the allegations directed against the South Asian community, especially regarding the domination of the business sector, capital flight and the recruitment of expatriates by local South Asian business houses, needed to be answered. | 
                    
                     
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                        Tanzania Advocacy Partnership Program – Building Capacity of Regional Business Associations in Tanzania   | 
                    
                     
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                      Thursday, August 25, 2005  by 
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                      Tanzania Advocacy Partnership Program – Building Capacity of Regional Business Associations in Tanzania: Since January 2002, CIPE has been involved in planning and implementing various 
activities to build the capacity of regional business associations in 6 target regions of Tanzania in the areas of business association management, governance, and advocacy. The target regions are Iringa, Mbeya, Morogoro, Rukwa, Ruvuma, and Tanga. This is part of a USAID-funded 
initiative for which CIPE is a subcontractor to Pact. | 
                    
                     
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                        The regulatory environment for business information sharing   | 
                    
                     
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                      Thursday, August 25, 2005  by 
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                      The regulatory environment for business information sharing: Information sharing is a crucial precondition for the development of a thriving credit market and for the access to finance by firms. The focus of this paper is the regulation of the exchange of information on firms as intermediated by credit registries. The paper presents different kinds of indices to test their explanatory power for information distribution for a panel of 90 countries. | 
                    
                     
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                        Business Promotion Mission to Munich   | 
                    
                     
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                      Wednesday, August 24, 2005  by 
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                      The East African Business Council (EABC) in conjuction with Confederation of German Chamber of Commerce and Industry is organizing a Business Promotion mission  to Germany on 17th -18th October 2005. Main sectors of focus are Agro-processing, Energy, Information and Telecommunication Technologie and Mining & Gemstones. | 
                    
                     
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                        Role of the Financial Sector in Tanzania's Economy   | 
                    
                     
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                      Tuesday, August 23, 2005  by 
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                      In order to increase Tanzania’s wealth and economic growth, the financial sector could play a vital role in development, more so in poverty reduction. This article highlights some points on the contributions financial sector could make. It also highlights some of the snags these financial institutions put on the local Tanzanians. For example local banks being reluctant to grant loans to local Tanzanians unless they have collateral that most do not have. | 
                    
                     
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                        One year on, 24 Tanzania firms fail to attract strategic partners   | 
                    
                     
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                      Thursday, August 18, 2005  by 
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                      Investors are shying away from Tanzanias industrial sector with 24 firms that have been seeking foreign equity capital since last year yet to find suitors. Thousands of jobs are at risk as some companies are likely to close down or scale down operations unless investment capital for expansion and technology upgrades is available soon. | 
                    
                     
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                        Banks campaign to boost small, medium businesses   | 
                    
                     
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                      Wednesday, July 27, 2005  by 
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                      Barclays Bank Tanzania Ltd has embarked on a drive to support SMEs and create awareness among Tanzanians on what Barclays is doing. "Barclays' SME customers are able to access facilities such as loans, working capital financing, letters of credit performance and bid bonds", Deus Manyenye, Head of Retail Banking. | 
                    
                     
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