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

Transformify

With an unemployment rate of 11.20%, Algeria faces many challenges with regard to the creation of jobs. Technology is not overlooked too, as the Mauritius Board of Investment intends to create 10 000 jobs in the telecommunications and information technologies sectors by 2019.

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[Review] The Rise Of The New East

YoungUpstarts

By now, many would know that China is expanding aggressively to West Asian and North African countries like Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Algeria, Libya and Egypt. The key here is to transfer foreign management expertise and technologies to China while tapping on its huge domestic entertainment market.

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Aspen Institute Maghreb Investor Delegation, next week in NY and CA

David Teten

The group is about 22 people; managing directors, partners and COO’s of major investments firms in Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, and Tunisia. In addition, as part of the program, I’ll be making my first public presentation of our research study on VC portfolio operations value creation. More details.

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Victoria: Investing In Morocco’s Future

YoungUpstarts

Casablanca is also one of the largest financial centres in North Africa, as Morocco is a key participant in the Maghreb agreement that facilitates trade with its neighbours: Algeria, Libya, Mauritania and Tunisia.

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