Expert Commentaries
TRADING IN WONDERLAND IN THE CARIBBEAN

TRADING IN WONDERLAND IN THE CARIBBEAN

|Export Academy Faculty
I went to the University of the West Indies Mona Campus in Jamaica in 1968 on a Serve and Learn scheme with the UK Overseas Development AdminIstration. The British invaded...
TRADING ILLUSIONS IN WEST AFRICA

TRADING ILLUSIONS IN WEST AFRICA

|Export Academy Faculty
  My experience of international trade in West Africa began as a European Commission Economic Advisor in Togo in 1976. I worked on STABEX, to stabilize Togolese export earnings. Brussels...
TRADING HOPES WITH ASIA

TRADING HOPES WITH ASIA

|Export Academy Faculty
Despite lack of trade negotiation practice during half a century, while the European Commission did the job instead of UK officials, the UK now fields a team led by an...
BRITISH AID – COMING OR GOING ?

BRITISH AID – COMING OR GOING ?

|Export Academy Faculty
The British Department for International Development, (DFID), is now merged with the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). Its budget this year will be cut by £2.9 billion, index-linked to...
High lending rates drive investments away

High lending rates drive investments away

|Export Academy Faculty
GHANA should introduce measures that will help halve the cost of borrowing or risk losing investments in agriculture and agroprocessing to neighbouring countries, the Team Leader of the West Africa...
TRADING IN WONDERLAND IN THE CARIBBEAN

TRADING IN WONDERLAND IN THE CARIBBEAN

|Export Academy Faculty
I went to the University of the West Indies Mona Campus in Jamaica in 1968 on a Serve and Learn scheme with the UK Overseas Development AdminIstration. The British invaded...