CBC as catalyst for African growth: although we have all heard of the Commonwealth Business Council, many of us are not quite sure what it does. Editor Anver Versi went to find out.(Editorial)

From: African Business | Date: March 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

The Commonwealth Business Council (CBC) is one of those international organisations that keeps popping up in news releases on a wide diversity of business activities but it remains something of an unknown quantity to the average business person in the street.

To find out exactly what it is, what it does and how it can be effective in Africa's current campaign for economic liberation, I went to meet Dr Mohan Kaul, the CBC's director general and chief executive.

I asked him what he considered the CBC's main function. "We are honest brokers for our members, bringing together ...

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