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...The Fairtrade Foundation, an NGO, estimates that cocoa farmers receive around 6 per cent of the final value of a chocolate bar....
...Ten days later, a buyer agreed to pay him NZ$5.5mn ($3.42mn), roughly NZ$2mn more than he had spent on buying the land and building the house....
...We are prepared to pay a vast price to contain pandemics. And we can do so far better than before.”...
...In addition, the presidents of Brazil and Mexico, the two most populous countries, sent confusing messages, playing down the crisis and questioning medical judgments....
...ABF has decided not to pay an interim dividend to preserve cash and liquidity....
...Investment Fund....
...There is local participation but there is no insistence on 51/49....
...Buyers pay the estate agents’ fees, even though agents represent sellers — 6 per cent of the sale price before tax....
...On average, women now account for 22.6 per cent of national legislatures across sub-Saharan Africa, putting the region only slightly behind the Americas and Europe and ahead of Asia, the Pacific and Arab...
...Multinational companies are drawn to Africa today because of its natural resources; its economic growth – the International Monetary Fund expects economies in the sub-Saharan region to post average economic...
...“One of my biggest problems was finding parking spots that I didn’t have to pay for. Sometimes, I parked in loading zones or other illegal areas; other times, I didn’t bother to pay the meter....
...The Global Fund has received $6.5bn in pledges from international donors for spending up to 2008 and the World Bank has lent more than $1bn through its multi-country HIV/Aids programme for Africa alone since...
...The trucker sub-culture is resistant to change....
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