| Title: | OUTSOURCING IN WEST AFRICA: CAN ANY OF THESE COUNTRIES BECOME |
| Price: | $1,089.00 |
| Publication Date: | May 01, 2008 |
| Source: | YANKEE GROUP RESEARCH REPORTS |
| Brief Excerpt: | ...West Africa is a region best known for its mineral resources (in particular gold, oil and natural gas), cash crops (such as cocoa) and historical ties with the slave trade. At the same time, the region includes some of the poorest countries in the world such as Mali. For a region rich in mineral wealth, this should be a boom time in West African countries, with the oil price reaching more than $### per barrel and the price of gold approaching $#,### per ounce. But because of a highly unstable political landscape and deep divisions between the haves and have-nots in African countries, th e riches have not trickled down to elevate the poor in many West African countries. The worst excesses and inequities along this line appear to be in Nigeria, a country that has huge oil wealth and is one of the elite Organization of the Petroleum Exporti ng Countries (OPEC) oil producers. According to OPEC March #### figures, Nigeria is the seventh-largest crude oil producer in the world. But... |
| Length: | 12 Pages
(11 Billable Pages)
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| Geographic Region: | AFRICA, WEST AFRICA |
| Industry: | DATA PROCESSING |
| Non-Billable Page Numbers: | 12 |
| Format: | 
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