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A growing number of successful good practice case studies in Africa are helping guide universities and colleges into how best to boost access to higher education across the continent. More than 80 million Africans have disabilities, according to the UN (1).…

From boosting root growth to nicotine detection, weeding out carcinogens, cleansing filters and promoting sustainability and smart interaction with retailers and smokers, researchers are suggesting that the so-called ‘wonder material’ graphene has a plethora of uses within the tobacco industry.…

There is a growing global movement to align Islamic social finance with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (https://sdgs.un.org/goals), which are designed to address global environmental, social and economic challenges by 2030. These include combating poverty, inequality, climate change and environmental degradation and ensuring social justice.…

THE BRITISH Coatings Federation (BCF) has continued to press the UK government to mitigate the problems caused by Britain’s Brexit withdrawal from the European Union (EU), as the country’s industry fights to preserve its income.

Both imports of raw materials and packaging supplies, as well as exports of finished products to and from the EU have been hindered by the red tape imposed on trade under the EU/UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) that underpinned Brexit, says the BCF.…

The European Parliament’ international trade committee has travelled to Dhaka to press the Bangladesh government to ensure that its country complies with 27 international labour, social and environmental conventions. This, MEPs will say, is needed for Bangladesh to qualify for the EU Generalised Scheme of Preferences Plus’ (GSP) privileged trade access.…

The rapid escalation of Sri Lanka’s political and economic crisis, causing its former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee the country and resign, has had far-reaching implications for the country’s clothing and textile manufacturing sector, which plays a crucial role in the nation’s economy.…

The central American and Dominican Republic clothing and textile sectors are lobbying against the United States scrapping the China 301 tariffs on finished apparel imports following a possible entente with Beijing, saying that the duties are helping encourage investments in their countries.…

India’s premium spirits market is growing fast with rising incomes and sharply falling prices in many states boosting sales. India’s gross national income per head in 2021 was USD7,220 compared to USD4,190 in 2010, according to World Bank data. With more money, “Indians are drinking better, but unlike the west [also] drinking more,” Ruchika Gupta, marketing director of Beam Suntory told Just Drinks.…

Continental European and British manufacturers are stepping up to supplement the depleted US infant formula market, but their efforts may be limited by too little supply and too much red tape. “In the short run, major export volumes from the EU [European Union] to the US in these products is not a very realistic expectation,” said Pekka Pesonen, secretary general of Copa-Cogeca, which represents EU farmers and agri-cooperatives.…

Political pressure is mounting on the European Union (EU) to work harder and spent more on fighting fraud, with a European Parliament (EP) motion stressing that investments into fighting fraud saves more money than is lost to fraud and corruption when controls are too weak.…