News: 3.18.2021
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Small and Medium Enterprises
Brazilian Tax Incentives to Startups
December 3, 2020
As entrepreneurial ventures, startups generally focus on capitalizing upon a perceived market demand by developing a viable product, service, or platform. According to the Brazilian Startup Association, there are approximately 13,000 startups in Brazil, and the number has been increasing year after year.
On COVID-19, AfCFTA and the Role of the Afreximbank as Pan-African Multilateral Trade Finance Institution
On the 24th of March 2020, the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) announced a US$3 billion facility to help its member countries weather the economic and health impacts of Covid-19. In this interview, Prof Ben Oramah, President Afreximbank, discusses this pandemic facility, the African Continental Free Trade Area, (AfCFTA) and more.
Introduction to the COVID-19 Symposium on International Economic Law in the Global South
Welcome to this symposium on COVID-19 and International Economic Law in the Global South. The essays in this symposium came from Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, the Caribbean, North America and Latin America. This symposium will last for a full four weeks because of the large number of good quality submissions we accepted.
How to Implement the AfCFTA
Thus, for purposes of AfCFTA sustainability, AfCFTA implementation mechanisms should: integrate inclusive and participatory decision-making process; retain policy space for national interests; and extend AfCFTA benefits to all society groups—women, youth, people with disabilities, and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs)—without comprising the sustainability of environmental resources.