Thomas Heesch Period 1 Mr. Holmes May 14th 2014 Benin When it comes to the country of Benin there may be some doubts and some incentives about building a manufacturing plant to produce consumer goods inside the country. Although there is some positives in the country of Benin, I do not think we should set up a manufacturing plant here. If there were to be a manufacturing plant here it would create more jobs and also become successful depending on the goods that it produces. Benin’s economics are not as great as a manufacturer owner would want them to be to build a factory in the country. The government of Benin today is more of a democracy type of government. Benin’s economy still remains to be not developed and is mainly based on agriculture. Although it is one of Africa’s biggest cotton producers it ranks among one of the world’s poorest countries. The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of Benin is $7.557 billion USD. It is that low because they do not have much to offer in the trading business and they do not produce a lot of goods that other countries want to buy. The GDP per capita in this country was last recorded at $1,700 US dollars in 2012. The GDP per capita in Benin is relatively low compared to most of the other countries in the world. This could be a terrible thing because that means its standard of living is not so high and could infer that there is quite a bit of poverty in this country and its wealth overall is not so admirable. A lower standard of living in a country could mean that the area or city is atrocious and or the country’s wages that it has to offer are decumbent. Having that said it could be bad for my company but still an incentive for it as well. The advantage that this could have in the company is ... ... middle of paper ... ...e for Water and Sanitation (CREPA) wants to help the people of Benin increase their drinking water safety by 2015, making the water more purified and safer to drink. The electrical power system in Benin is not that reliable. It’s not reliable because they have frequent black outs and it takes some time for the electricity to get back up and running. Nigeria is supposedly suppose to be exporting more electricity to the country so that schools, businesses, hospitals, homes and etc can be made available during the day and at night. If Nigeria does actually end up exporting the energy it would be a great thing for the company because it would be able to stay open at the hours it needs running. The relationship between Benin and the United States is commendable. The two countries have had a meritorious history of relations in the years since Benin embraced democracy.
It will help Andrews reduce manufacturing costs and overall labour costs in the long-run. As acquiring a new supplier will take time and hinder manufacturing processes for a while, it will, ultimately, however, help Andrews reduce its costs once everything has settled down. The advantage of this offshore location is the lower labour costs and manufacturing costs.
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Uganda is a nation located in Southern Mid-Africa, and is ruled by Lt. Gen. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni. The LRA, also known as the Lord’s Resistance army, is a rebel group active in Uganda and the countries around it and was originally created by the woman Alice Lakwena (Lakwena). The group was known as the Holy Spirit Movement then and was mainly created, because Lakwena stated that she had a dream where the Holy Spirit told her to overthrow the Ugandan government, whom were mistreating the Acholi people in Uganda at the time. The movement gained much support and when the Ugandan government won a battle between the movement and itself Lakwena was exiled. This was when Joseph Kony (Kony), stepped in saying he was Lakwena’s cousin and that he was taking over. Kony renamed the movement the LRA, but due to particularly violent tactics many people began to leave the LRA and it was rapidly losing support. This then led the LRA to start using child soldiering, and raid many villages and kill or mutilate many people. Despite what some people believe, the LRA is still a deadly group that uses child soldiering, and human trafficking and continues to threaten Uganda and its neighbors today.
Like most eastern countries that rely on one source of income Nigeria has had major
If the federal government support the small business financially, this may result in more prospurity, and co9vergae of clinical shortage . It is important to assign deligates to persuave some banks to l begin accepting applications from financial institutions who are interested in becoming Community Advantage lenders. It is essential to lobby the government to join thousands of partnerships , and focus on health,, education and welfare. The role will be more effective if we expand the partnership globally. global funding. Global funding can be significant in building program targeting HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis that are high risk from these diseases. Our focus should be focused on human development and not on energy development.
Adding to overseas sourcing so that lead time could be faster for design and production they could also divide the business up and have different locations for orders and new products to make business faster and
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Some other cons and challenges of doing business in Nigeria that also affects this group are; lack of infrastructure, poor power supply, inadequate security, inconsistent government policies, transportation challenges, inability to access funds and lack of government support.
Effective communication routes are needed in order to keep a business running; otherwise the threat of failure becomes a dangerous reality. Akinbile and Oni touch on the topic of technology as it relates to Nigeria in their Meta-analysis titled Assessments of the challenges and benefits of communication technology on the construction industry in Oyo State Nigeria. The issue facing Oyo State is the lack of and expense of informational communication technology in everyday business.
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to be a kingdom before Germany started to occupy the region. Both of the Kingdom
Nigeria, with its prodigous oil and natural gas reserves, has the potential to be one of the most affluent places on the planet, were it not for the rampant corruption that defines it. Instead, it is the 20th poorest country in the world1. Much like the guanxi of China, Nigeria practices prebendalism—the use of high-level positions to gain personal wealth. In other words, people exchange money for political favors, which of course creates a greedy and corrupt society. The extent of this fraudulency is such that most of Nigeria's oil wealth is sucked up by one per cent of the population, while more than 60% falls below the poverty line. In fact, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has determined that 92% of Nigeria lives on less than one dollar a day2. Meanwhile, it is estimated that in the past 50 years, three to four hundred billion dollars have been stolen by government officials.
The objective of this report is to give understanding on the culture of Nigeria, the diversity of its people and the overwhelming struggles that exist. It also discusses the movements of the people, and how kingdoms arose and grew, and the expansions in their industries, in petroleum and their rural contributions, also the demographic features of the population of Nigeria, including population density, ethnicity, economic status, religious affiliations and added aspects of the population, and how Nigeria incorporates a more complete range of climate settings, and the environmental dangers the lands face, with corrosion, and the campaigns local and national, that fight to protect land from industrial development. The country's land that varies greatly, with lowlands in the south, hills and plateaus in the central region and plains in the north, with coastal swamps and tropical forests take over the southern lands, while the north is mostly savannah and semi-desert.
Corruption in the Niger delta region of Nigeria has led to abject poverty in the state. State governs in the Niger delta are making living unbearable for the indigenes of state by embezzling public funds for their own purposes. For example in the New York Amsterdam News Guthrie Gray mentioned that “Despite its new wealth, however, the money allocated to Niger delta states does not appear to be getting to most of its citizens” (Guthrie Gray). The means of lively hood in the states has been destroyed by corrupt oil companies and public officers. People in the state can no more farm and fish because their land and water has been destroyed by the oil companies in the area; however, some funds are released by oil companies and the federal government but the government of the Niger delta have refused to put the funds to good use because they are corrupt. They prefer to use the funds for their own benefits, buying houses overseas and having numerous foreign accounts. For about 35 years Oil Company in the Niger delta has refused to give to the community good infra...
But the growth has not been inclusive, broad-based and transformational. The implication of this trend is that economic growth in Nigeria has not resulted in the desired structural changes that would make manufacturing the engine of growth, create employment, promote technological development and induce poverty alleviation. Available data has put the national poverty level at 54.4 per cent. Similarly, there has been rising unemployment with the current level put at 19.7 per cent by the National Bureau of Statistics