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The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) exists to certify that products coming from the world’s forests are produced responsibly. You may never had heard about the FSC, but if you look around your home, you’ll see its logo everywhere — on your toilet paper, inside your books, maybe even on your furniture.

The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) exists to certify that products coming from the world’s forests are produced responsibly. You may never had heard about the FSC, but if you look around your home, you’ll see its logo everywhere — on your toilet paper, inside your books, maybe even on your furniture.

    The Minister for Transport, Mr Kwaku Ofori Asiamah, says his outfit would soon task the Ghana Maritime Authority to prepare...

Time to stop child labour By By Timi Olubiyi, Ph.D It is a common sight in Nigeria and indeed many developing nations to use kids as labourers or expose them to indecent activities such as traffic hawking, street trading, housemaids, domestic services, okada-riding and in several nano- micros and small businesses as casual workers including agriculture. These nano-businesses include kiosk and corner shops, vulcanizers, street vendors, shoemakers, apprentice mechanics, carpenters, tailors, barbe...

Striking a different note from most commentators on the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI), this paper finds that the Agreement does deliver on the EU’s negotiation mandate. It notes that much criticism of the CAI surfaced before the provisional agreement was actually published. This text-based analysis considers how the Agreement lifts the barriers to market access that European businesses have been confronted with, advances the EU’s WTO reform agenda on a number of...