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Business Registration in Rwanda: How digitisation improved business environment and spurred economic growth

Since 2008, Rwanda has implemented more than 50 legal and institutional reforms, which has allowed the country to digitise and automate its business registration procedures. Richard Kayibanda, who has been Registrar General at Rwanda Development Board since 2018, talks about the country’s success. When it comes to doing business in ...

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Revealed: How TotalEnergies has been delaying the climate transition for 50 years

Following the revelations, Notre Affaire à Tous and 350.org call for the multinational to be held responsible for its past and present behaviour in the climate crisis.  In an article published Wednesday, October 20, in the international journal Global Environmental Change, three historians reveal that the managers and employees of ...

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Nigeria maintains position as Africa’s most valuable nation brand

World’s top nation brands begin road to recovery with cumulative brand value up 7% Nigeria has held its position as Africa’s most valuable nation brand, with a brand value of US$236 billion, according to the latest Brand Finance Nation Brands 2021 report. Despite the turmoil of the pandemic, Nigeria has ...

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Spotting child abuse and neglect early needs curiosity

More training and emotional support is needed for school staff who are relied upon to keep children safe from abuse and neglect.  That’s one recommendation from a new report by the University of Portsmouth.  Being interested in the stories of parents and carers – known as ‘professional curiosity’ – is ...

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World’s largest open dataset for development of self-driving vehicles launched

Self-driving vehicles such as cars, ships and drones offer the potential for reduced costs, lower environmental impacts and fewer accidents. Now, a new open dataset from researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, sets a new standard for evaluating the algorithms of such vehicles, and the development of autonomous transport ...

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The Gambia launches new five-year export strategy with support from The Commonwealth

The Gambia has launched a new five-year export strategy aimed at growing dynamic and sustainable economic growth in the country.with the support of The Commonwealth Secretariat. To be implemented from 2021 to 2025, the National Export Strategy (NES) is expected to increase The Gambia’s exports, diversify its products, create new job ...

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Bela-Bela’s Santie is no wallflower in the automotive industry 

Growing up with brothers is where Santie Boshoff says her love for cars started. They wouldn’t let her play with their cars so she would build her own. This can-do attitude has held Santie in good stead since she married into the industry and then became an integral part of ...

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Pandemic planning:Government should embrace uncertainty rather than confront or shy away from it

New research shows the UK’s COVID-19 management decisions were based on an outdated pandemic modelling structure and suggests a more resilient approach would have been more effective. In the initial months of the pandemic, regular updates using graphs showing how the R number was behaving was the mainstay of the ...

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Global smart mobility market to hit over $500bn in 2021

…  Revenues to almost triple within the next five years The increasing trend of on-demand transportation and government initiatives for the development of smart cities continue driving the growth of the global smart mobility market. Although the COVID-19 did affect the smart mobility revenues, the entire sector is expected to continue ...

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Toyota’s production record of 7.55m vehicles in FY 2021, lowest in almost a decade – Report

Global mobility was essentially halted by COVID-19 in 2020 resulting in a huge financial downturn for even the giants of the car manufacturing industry. According to data presented by TradingPlatforms.com, Toyota produced its lowest number of vehicles in almost a decade – 7.55M units in FY ending March 2021.  Lowest ...

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