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Ethiopia: Africa’s Lion Economy Averaging 10.6% GDP Growth per Year

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Ethiopia: Africa’s Lion Economy Averaging 10.6% GDP Growth per Year

Interested in investing in Africa? While South Africa has been continuously attracting media and investment attention, the business community seems to be neglecting other promising investment destinations within the continent.

With the current article we’d like to highlight an African emerging market that is becoming one of the fastest growing world economies, Ethiopia.

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How to Recognize and Avoid Securities Investment Fraud?

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How to Recognize and Avoid Securities Investment Fraud?

Providing relevant information that will help our customers to better protect themselves from investment-related risks is one of Merar’s priority tasks. In our blog archive you can find plenty of articles on the scam threads entrepreneurs are facing when looking for funding. Since investors who seek opportunities are also objects of scam attacks and ...

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Invitation to the India Private Equity Conclave 2012

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Invitation to the India Private Equity Conclave 2012

With regard to the amazing deal flow supply and demand associated with India, we’d like to invite you to the Private Equity Conclave 2012 to be held in multiple locations actross the coutry in the upcoming spring.

The event will be devoted to the topic of Private Equity (PE) in India and will take ...

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How to Effectively Present Your Business in Front of Investors?

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How to Effectively Present Your Business in Front of Investors?

Despite being so enthusiastic about their business ideas, entrepreneurs often fail to win the attention of investors when they meet. The reason usually lies in the differences in terms of perspectives, information needs and benefits sought.

The entrepreneur-side often focuses on the “What” aspect of the idea, namely what is going to be produced or ...

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Merar Gives the Word to Investors: The New ‘Offer from Investor’ Feature

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Merar Gives the Word to Investors: The New ‘Offer from Investor’ Feature

Merar implements new feature enabling investors to announce their interests and requirements to the wide public of entrepreneurs as response to customer requests.

So far, there have been two mechanisms on Merar for investors to find investment opportunities:

  1. Independently browsing throughout the investment projects database
  2. Subscribing for a regular update on the investment opportunities matching ...

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Uncle Bulgaria (Short Introduction in City A.M.)

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Uncle Bulgaria (Short Introduction in City A.M.)

This is a short article released on January 10th in City A.M., London.

Petko Karamotchev doesn’t see Made in Chelsea entrepreneur Francis Boulle as a competitor. He just contacted The Capitalist from Bulgaria to let it be known that his investment network Merar.com operates in “different markets” from Boulle’s investment platform ...

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Winning China's Markets - An SME Guide

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Winning China's Markets - An SME Guide

This report is written from the perspective of European small and medium-sized enterprises considering operation in, or already  operating in China. However, it also takes into account the wider context of EU-China relations, as they may influence Chinese company policy.

This brief starts off from this wider horizon, beginning with the observation that senior management ...

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Key Issues with Mergers & Acquisitions in Bulgaria

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Key Issues with Mergers & Acquisitions in Bulgaria

This publication was provided to Merar by our friends from DLA Paper back in 2010 and is intended to provide a brief overview of certain key issues likely to affect the structure and timing of mergers and acquisitions in Bulgaria.

It does not cover tax, EU or national competition issues (a wall-chart setting out merger ...

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Renewable Energy in Russia - A Giant Yet To Be Awakened

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Although Russia has a global image of an oil and gas supplier, the overwhelming size of the country implies a strong development potential for all renewable energy resources as well and current trends of state policy in the sector look more and more attractive to investors, according to a research commissioned by the Merar Investment ...

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Agro-investment in Africa - Impact on land and livelihoods in Mozambique and Tanzania

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The current article is part of a publication by Noragric, the Department of International Environment and Development Studies at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, on the social impact of investments in Agriculture. The research fosuses on two case studies, namely Mozambique and Tanzania, and explores in details the problem of 'land grabbing' resulting from ...

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