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An example of event franchising is the World Economic Forum, also known as the Davos forum, which has regional event franchisees in China, Latin America, etc. Likewise, the alter-globalist World Social Forum has launched many national events.
Social franchising is the application of the principles of commercial franchising to promote social benefit rather than private profit. In the first sense, it refers to a contractual relationship wherein an independent coordinating organization (usually a non-governmental organization, but occasionally a governmental body or private company [2]) offers individual independent operators the ...
A large percentage of the world's population has no choice but to survive on earnings from their own micro-enterprises. A 2002 report from the International Labor Organization indicated that 72% of sub-Saharan Africa' s population, 51% of Latin America's population, and 65% of Asia's population operates within the informal sector. Moreover ...
Africa Bibliography; Africa Confidential; Africa Development; Africa Education Review; Africa Insight; Africa Media Review; Africa Renewal; Africa Research Bulletin; Africa Review of Books; Africa, Rivista semestrale di studi e ricerche, successor of Africa: Rivista trimestrale di studi e documentazione; Africa Spectrum; Africa Today; Africa ...
The field includes the study of Africa's history (pre-colonial, colonial, post-colonial), demography (ethnic groups), culture, politics, economy, languages, and religion (Islam, Christianity, traditional religions). A specialist in African studies is often referred to as an "Africanist".
Chicken Licken was founded in South Africa by George Sombonos, the son of a Greek immigrant restaurant owner. [6] [9] [10] Sombonos learned the restaurant trade in the 1970s at the Dairy Den, his father's restaurant in Ridgeway, a suburb in the southern Inner City region of Johannesburg. [11] [12] KFC entered the South African market in 1971. [13]
Manning, for example, arrived at the following conclusion, after accounting for regional variations in slave exports and assuming an annual African population growth rate of 0.5.%: the population of West Africa would have been 100 million rather than ~50 million in 1850, if not for the combined effects of the external and internal slave trades ...
Debonairs Pizza is a South Africa-based pizza restaurant chain franchise founded in 1991 by Craig MacKenzie and Andrew Harvey. MacKenzie came up with the idea and business model to found the company following a gap-year trip to Los Angeles when he was a student at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. [2]