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Christina Knutsson, is a director of GDP Global since 2005. She has 16 years’ direct experience in economic promotion, working with and on behalf of European, African and Latin American investment promotion and economic development agencies at …

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John Hanna, a Director of GDP Global, has 19 years’ experience in economic development at strategy and senior operational level. He worked with the UK’s Welsh Development Agency as a senior investment promotion and marketing director for eight years.
Since forming GDP …

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Charles Hardeman, an Associate Consultant of GDP Global, is also CEO of Santerre Ltd. (www.santerre-ltd.com). The company specializes in providing services in infrastructure development and business management. Prior to his …

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The effectiveness of a place brand or a company’s brand can make the difference between success and failure. It’s not by chance that Orange is perceived as a friendlier brand compared to its commercial competitor Vodafone, or that Nike …

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Despite the global financial and economic difficulties, Abu Dhabi is continuing to develop the Masdar Initiative – to pursue “solutions to some of mankind’s most pressing issues: energy security, climate change and truly sustainable human development”. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video

What’s the PPP angle? Well, the government of Abu Dhabi is …

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Opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim took a swipe at the government’s opaque operations, which he claims, are crippling the economy and discouraging investment.

He said the opposition was concerned that public-sector spending had risen to RM200 billion annually from RM160 billion …

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If Egypt was the gift of the Nile, then Idaho is the gift of the semiconductor. At least that’s how it looks according to a report released  by technology trade association AeA.

Cyberstates 2008: A State-by-State Overview of High-Tech International Trade reports …

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Feldstein says low Fed rates may not stimulate growth
“Harvard University economist Martin Feldstein, a member of the committee that charts American business cycles, said the Federal Reserve cannot count on low interest rates to buoy economic growth.

“‘Lower interest rates are not …