GSK, Nestlé, Coca-Cola & Dabur top up effort to tap rural consumers

Consumer product makers such as GlaxoSmithKline, Nestlé, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Hindustan Unilever, Marico, Godrej and Dabur are rushing to the bottom-of-the-pyramid market with custom-made products six years after management guru CK Prahalad said consumers with incomes less than $2 a day can be a...

Conference on global poverty: business solutions and approaches

Business Solutions and Approaches, a Harvard Business School conference on global poverty, explored ways in which serving the poor can be both a profitable business proposition and help improve the lives of the world's impoverished men and women. The conference focused on successful business...

izf.net

Created in 1998, www.izf.net aims to provide useful and current information in order to facilitate investment into the CFA Franc Zone area in francophone West Africa. It is a powerful tool in regard to the economic integration of the Franc Zone region, creating a link not just between North-South...

Doing business with the poor - a field guide

The Guide explores the way in which several leading companies, including Shell, Coca Cola and Procter and Gamble, are developing inclusive business models designed to assist them to create new revenue streams while serving the needs of the poor through sound commercial operations. The companies are...

Madagascar Ministère de l'économie, des finances et du budget (MEFB)

The Madagaskar Ministry of the Economy, Finance and Budgeting is a government department responsible for financial services, including taxation and customs.

Cultural Savvy

Cultural Savvy, a website, provides useful articles and information pertaining to cultural customs and etiquette from different countries.

Council Regulation (EC) No 1186/2009 of 16 November 2009 setting up a Community system of reliefs from customs duty

All 15 member countries of the European Union (EU) are governed by EU law. So the same EU regulations apply when importing or exporting humanitarian aid into member states. EU regulation No 918/2009 sets out those cases in which, owing to special circumstances, relief from import of export duties...

Centers for International Trade Development (CITD) - Trade Information Database

Centers for International Trade Development (CITD) is a California based agency which provides information and tools to train and prepare individuals / companies for international trade. The site also has some useful links to Export/Import Guides and to the US Customs Guide to Importing and...

Logistics & Transportation Corporate Citizenship Initiative

Logistics&Transportation Corporate Citizenship Initiative reviews the work done in pursuit of the organisation's goal of "proactively contributing towards sustainable development" and includes a forward plan for the next five years. It discusses progress made on the following deliverables:...

Guidelines to Bhutan Customs Rules and Regulations

This site provides information for those importing goods to Bhutan on the following topics: prohibited goods, tax and regulations.

Tentology

Tentology is a portal providing links to commercial companies able to supply tents and marquees to customers.

Bolivia Customs Regulations

Notes on requirements for exporting goods to Bolivia.

Brazilian Customs Regulations

Notes on requirements for exporting goods to Brazil.

Egypt's customs and tariff rates

EU Import Duties

EU Import Duties web page, maintained by the Foreign Agricultural Service US Mission to the European Union, provides commercial information on importing into the EU with a focus on agricultural products, e.g. cereal and rice, fruit and vegetables, and processed foods. The web page provides links to...

Standards of Corporate Social Responsibility

Standards of Corporate Social Responsibility, established by the Social Venture Network, are defined in terms of nine interrelated topics. There are three general topics: ethics, accountability, and governance; and, six topics related to each stakeholder group: investors, employees, business...

UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development) - TRAINS (TRade Analysis and INformation System) - Saudi Arabia page

The TRAINS country notes summarise the trade control measures, tariffs and other import regulations adopted by Saudi Arabia. Includes information on pre-shipment inspection, food expiry date restrictions, packaging requirements, prohibited products, import licences, tax and customs duty.

Southern Water supports WaterAid in a variety of ways

Southern Water, its employees and customers have supported WaterAid since 1981, promoting WaterAid through organising and taking part in fundraising events and making donations.

A Micro Credit success story in Tunisia

Faced with the constant flow of new job seekers, the Tunisian government created, in late 1997, the Tunisian Solidarity Bank (BTS). BTS is a microfinance institution established by Tunisian President Ben to finance private micro-projects in Tunisia.

Ecotact's Ikotoilet concept -- Sustainable sanitation services in Kenya

Ecotact is a Nairobi-based company established in 2008 to improve the urban landscape for low-income communities through environmentally responsible projects in sanitation and housing. Under the Ikotoilet project, Ecotact builds and operates high-quality, public pay-per-use toilet and shower...