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Top 10: Euro 2004 Stadiums Several stadiums have been erected or renovated in Portugal for Euro 2004. If you're a big soccer fan, consider visiting Portugal and checking out a world-class soccer match at one of these 10 great venues. |
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Coke Teaches the World Cup to Sing If Coca-Cola knows how to do anything, it's marketing, and as World Cup fever sweeps the world, the company's showing that it knows how to keep everyone cool. |
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Overpriced NFL Tickets The idea of dropping nearly $3,000 for a group of four to enter the stadium for one game is absolute lunacy. |
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June 27, 2007
Adyasha Sinha |
Offshoring to Johannesburg A reliable infrastructure and dedicated BPO support institutions ensure a sustainable industry development strategy backed by a coherent, comprehensive and complementary economic development plan for Joburg's business process outsourcing. |
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Africa: The Next Wide-Open Wireless Frontier In the sub-Sahara, companies big and small are rushing to sign up clients |
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Dambisa Moyo: Cut Off Aid to Africa Dambisa Moyo is telling the world that in order to save Africa, we need to stop giving them financial aid. |
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Africa: A Look into the Future OVER the past decade, Africa has been growing at an unprecedented rate, despite the successive global food and financial crises. |
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Africa's Burgeoning Ties with China Africa and China have been trading partners for centuries. But in recent years, the level and intensity of their relationship have increased dramatically. |
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Africa Is Looking Like a Dealmaker's Paradise In the wake of $15 billion in African takeover deals since summer, more global companies are expected to buy into the continent. |
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An Olympic-Size Mistake? An interview with critic Brian Hatch, who argues that New York City's strategy in bidding for the 2012 Games is a colossal error. |
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Diary of a Scalper Street hawkers are history. Savvy resellers use the Web to turn tickets into cash. |
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The Hot Ticket Isn't Ticketmaster Ticketmaster is taking aim at increasingly popular Web resellers. |
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Global Investment Comes Slowly to Africa shortest books" that people make jokes about. But Africa's economic story is beginning to develop new chapters, according to speakers at the recent Africa Business Forum organized by the Wharton African Students Association. The forum's theme was "Africa's Growth Engines." |
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Country Report: South Africa In just the past few years, South Africa has hit several key economic benchmarks demonstrating the country's upward trajectory. |
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Brian Grow |
Don't Scalp Us. We'll Scalp You With $50 tickets going for as much as $500 apiece, hundreds of fans joined in a class action that claimed the team violated the Illinois Ticket Scalping Act, which forbids selling any ticket for above its face value. |
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Investing World Cup: Developed Asia Rebuttal Ten or 12 years from now, things might be different, but this is 2006, and developed Asia wins this one. |
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The Fan Business Winning sports franchises know that selling tickets is only the beginning. Great customer experiences can provide measurable and exceptional business value. |
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Harry G. Broadman |
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December 2011
Abebe Aemro Selassie |
A Cushion for the Poor Plagued by high unemployment and closely tied to Europe, South Africa is struggling. |
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Adrian Rush |
Scalpers Play Scrooge in Boston We've all heard the stories about eager entrepreneurs scooping up the choice tickets for an event and then reselling them for ridiculous profits. |
Finance & Development
December 2006 |
Letters to the Editor Corruption Taking Its Toll on Growth... A Missed Opportunity... Financial Sector is Key to Africa's Growth... |
