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.

Sample Questionnaire reply from the Philippines

This information was submitted in response to a questionnaire distributed by Global Hand concerning humanitarian regulations for the Philippines. It lists the documents required for importing aid to the Philippines, the goods that are prohibited and provides guidelines for obtaining tax exemptions....

Bolivia Customs Regulations

Notes on requirements for exporting goods to Bolivia.

Information on Tax Exemption, Bulgaria

This document, from the National Customs Agency in Bulgaria, lists requirements for importing goods duty-free, the types of goods that can be imported, and also lists which organisations and individuals can import such goods.

Brazilian Customs Regulations

Notes on requirements for exporting goods to Brazil.

Humanitarian Customs Guide

Information about restrictions on goods, tax exemption, documents required and monetary valuation for humanitarian aid.

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.

Just how inclusive is ‘inclusive business’?

The growing effort to make markets work for the poor has seen the emergence of several initiatives and practices that claim to be more inclusive of smallholders and poor workers. But how far such initiatives genuinely reduce poverty and empower small-scale producers remains open for debate.