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From open data to a collaborative community – looking ahead with TCdata360
June 5, 2017 Editor 0
TCdata360: Your Source for Open Trade and Competitiveness Data It’s now been about a month since the Trade & Competitiveness Global Practice of the World Bank Group launched TCdata360, our new platform for open trade and competitiveness data from the Bank and external sources. The initial response has been overwhelmingly positive, and it has included […]
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Improved tilapia breeding program in Egypt: A year in review
January 2, 2017 Editor 0
Since 2002, WorldFish has run a breeding program in Egypt for a faster-growing strain of Nile tilapia, known as the Abbassa improved strain. The strain was produced using a methodology developed from the WorldFish Genetically Improved Farmed Tilapia (GIFT) breeding program. Dissemination of the Abbassa strain has benefited many farmers in Egypt, the second-largest tilapia-producing […]
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Addressing Egypt’s aquaculture challenges
November 4, 2015 Editor 0
Critical problems, including water quality and disease prevention, in the $1.5 billion Egyptian aquaculture industry were addressed in a meeting of key stakeholders in Cairo last week. The second plenary meeting of the Egyptian Aquaculture Innovation Platform, organized by WorldFish, addressed concerns affecting the industry and set out a series of action items in order […]
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Access to finance and financial problems of SMEs: evidence from Egypt
October 1, 2013 Editor 0
Access to finance and financial problems of SMEs: evidence from Egypt Hala El-Said; Mahmoud Al-Said; Chahir Zaki International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Vol. 20, No. 3 (2013) pp. 286 – 309 Financial services seem to be under-utilised by small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) as only 50% are dealing with banks and benefiting […]
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Egypt: New Egyptian Tablet; in Markets Before End of Year
September 28, 2013 Editor 0
[Egypt Online]Chairman of the Arab Organization for Industrialization (AOI) Abdul Aziz Saif el-Deen asserted that there are current negotiations with the ministry of education for marketing the new Tablet “PLUTO” via schools. Go to Source
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[Infographic] Africa Mobile connections predicted to explode to almost a billion by 2017
September 24, 2013 Editor 0
A new infographic by InternetServiceProviders.org is predicting that Africa mobile connection will grow at a rate of 6.5% from 2012 to 2017 implying that the connections will go from 683 million in 2012 to 93 Million in 2017. Currently Africa accounts for only 7% of the world’s internet users in the world, with most Internet activity and infrastructure concentrated in South […]
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