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November 6, 2013
IESC’s Watchen Bruce attends the 2013 Liberia Entrepreneurial Exchange. Sponsored by Forbes Magazine and the Liberian Ministry of Commerce and Industry, this business summit brought international philanthropists and social entrepreneurs together with Liberian business leaders to discuss ideas and approaches to developing Liberia’s private sector.
Ms. Bruce has over three decades of banking and finance experience and…
read moreNovember 4, 2013
A new article on Building Markets discusses ow Building Market’s Factor Finance for Procurement and Investing for Business Expansion Program are working together to break down barriers to finance.
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read moreAugust 12, 2013
On June 28, 2013 officials from Tunisia’s Ministry of Commerce, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Ministry of Industry, along with representatives from USAID, presented diplomas to 63 graduates of the Small Business Development Center (SBDC) Counselor and Director Certificate Training Program. This program was developed and taught by the University of Texas-San Antonio (UTSA), and builds on over 30 years of experience with the…
read moreHERAT, AFGHANISTAN | MAY 27 – Afghan business owners struggle to obtain the capital, management advice, equipment, and technologies needed to grow their businesses. Women and youth can make significant contributions to private sector growth but have limited opportunities for economic participation.
USAID, in parternship with VEGA/IESC, successfully opened the new regional office for the Assistance in Building Afghanistan by Developing…
read moreMay 31, 2013
On May 20, 2013, the Tunisia SME Project was formally launched by the United States and Tunisia at the Embassy of Tunisia in Washington, DC. The two-year economic growth project is implemented by IESC in partnership with the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), and funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) through the Volunteers for Economic Growth Alliance (VEGA).
The Tunisia SME Project seeks to…
read moreMay 7, 2013
IESC, in coordination with the Lesotho Tourism Development Corporate (LTDC), is working to develop a standardized, national accommodation star grading program to help boost Lesotho’s developing tourism industry. As part of this program, recently a series of six workshops held throughout Lesotho from March 4 to 15, 2013, and attracted more than 95 percent of the country’s tourism accommodation owners and…
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