Changing the Paradigm of Illegal Galamsey in Ghana Small-scale mining activities in Ghana date back more than 2000 years, with evidence of gold mining as far back as the seventh and eighth centuries. It also accounts...
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Heart and sole
Ethiopia’s footwear marches on Bethlehem Alemu is making great strides in creating employment and developing artisanal skills The flagship soleRebels store in downtown Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital, is a hipster shoe...
Ethiopia: brisk trading in coffee, sesame and white pea beans
How cash-strapped farmers get their goods to market quickly and at a fair, transparent price In a small, tidy office on the top floor of the Ethiopian Commodity Exchange building in Addis Ababa, communications manager...
Malawi eyes the informal sector as a source of income
The government plans to tax the informal economy to make up for funds lost through corruption For more than two decades, Lifa Andrew Phiri has known no other job than selling second-hand clothes imported from Europe...
