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Skills Development in Africa: How Wide is the Skills Gap?

Transformify

Most young people can’t afford to study abroad without government subsidies or scholarships. Just like its neighbours, Ghana is a predominantly agricultural country dependant on the cocoa production. To diversify the economy, the government put an emphasis on the services and sugarcane industries.

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11 Entrepreneurs Describe The BHAGs (Big Hairy Audacious Goals) For Their Business

Hearpreneur

Climate change is a very real threat that we are all responsible for, that’s governments, businesses and people. 10- Retire and live abroad in Ghana. Thanks to CarolynWilman, Idea Majesty ! #8- 8- Help 1,000 businesses begin to become green. Photo credit: Tim Brazier. Thanks to Deborah Sweeney, MyCorporation ! #10-

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Lean Startup Beyond the Tech Sector

Startup Lessons Learned

In fact, at last year’s Lean Startup conference we had speakers from a number other sectors, including government, transportation, education and public health. Could anything be less like a startup than the federal government? But, as he also said, “Projects within [government] often are.”

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NYC 3.0

thebarefootvc

I shared it with incubators from Ghana to Nairobi , at the White House Treasury Department, and in Indonesia with business and government leaders on a delegation I was asked to participate in by the US State Department. So how has the NYC tech entrepreneurship sector evolved?

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What is Brand Identity and How To Create a Great One: A Complete Guide for Marketers and Businesses (2019)

crowdSPRING Blog

We work with different types of customers, including entrepreneurs, small business owners, big Brands, agencies, non-profits, and even governments. ” Divine’s chocolate is farmed by the Kuapa Kokoo cooperative in Ghana. Those customer groups differ from each other.

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[Interview] Nellie Mayshak, Founder Of Canaf Consulting Associates

YoungUpstarts

For the last 17 years, Nellie Mayshak has been traveling around the globe, undertaking one high profile initiative after another in an effort to help nations recover and reform rational systems of government and public service after extended periods of disruption, if not chaos.

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Out of the Crisis #11: Jeremy Howard on the power of masks, health policy, and data science in medicine

Startup Lessons Learned

So he said, "Okay, well you can look at all this human resources data for this mine in Ghana. And they got really into the idea of wearing masks and within three days, the whole country had masks, within three days with no government support. And for them, a lot of it was this kind of weird anti-government thing. And he told me.