From silence to silence: the hidden story of a beef stew in Cape Verde.
Your meal is the maid's meal, said the Dona while she instructed me on how to make lunch for the rest of the family. She counted how many pieces of beef there were to make sure I had none. I thought--mi e fidju di Deus, ka sin? (I am...

The Doha Round negotiations on agricultural subsidies.
For the past seven years the international trade community's attention has been fixed on the issue of agricultural subsidies, both at the on-going Doha Round negotiations and in recent World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement proceedings. But the issue of agricultural subsidies is not strictly speaking just a trade...

Africa's premier banking multinational.
Africa's first true multinational, the Ecobank Group celebrated its 20th anniversary by recording yet another outstanding performance. Figures released in April 2008 show that in 2007, the Group's total assets increased by 87% from $4.2bn to $6.67bn; gross revenues (before interest expenses) rose by 66% to $697m while profit...

Birth of an African champion: how it all began.
The 1980s have been described as 'Africa's lost decade' when the post-independence euphoria had given way to a series of political and economic calamities. Productivity and revenue had hit the nadir while the debt mountain grew ever higher. Africa had lost control of its economic destiny. It...

Community of democracies.
Byline: Dr. ALBERTO G. ROMULO Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the Philippines (Speech delivered on behalf of the Community of Democracies' Convening Group (Cape Verde, Chile, Czech Republic, El Salvador, India, Italy, Republic of Korea, Mali, Mexico, Mongolia, Morocco, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, South Africa, United States) and...

Zero tariff to African countries.
China offers zero tariff treatment to 26 African countries on the export of commodities under 454 items, effective July 1st, 2007. Some chemical products and related products such as quartz, silicon dioxide, palmic acid, citric oil, lubricant, trichioroethane, LLDPE, polyethylene terephthalate, plastic articles and carbon fiber are included. ...

Early Responses to Renaissance Drama.
Charles C. Whitney. Early Responses to Renaissance Drama. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xii + 342 pp. index. illus. bibl. $85. ISBN: 0-521-85843-7. Early Responses to Renaissance Drama makes an important contribution to discussion of the public sphere of early modern drama. To understand the...

Couple wages peaceful battle on 2 continents; Target is to eradicate racism here, AIDS in Africa.
Byline: Elaine Thompson Timothy L. Bullock and his wife, Myrna, are making a difference in the world by impacting one person at a time. They have also walked thousands of miles to better understand how they can help eradicate racism in this country and HIV/AIDS and other...

Study: Sub-Saharan Africa Still Lags in Economic Freedom.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Economic freedom broadly declined last year in Sub-Saharan Africa, an area that remains home to more "repressed" economies than any other region, according to the 2007 "Index of Economic Freedom." Published annually by The Wall Street Journal and The Heritage Foundation, the...

Blacklisted British online entrepreneur gives up on Cuba.
Since the mid-1990s, Stephen A. Marshall had been a fixture within Havana's expatriate community. The 38-year-old businessman, originally from Yorkshire, England, had come to Cuba to start up a venture dedicated to providing online travel services. He was often seen entertaining friends and business clients at the...