Doing Business in Guinea-Bissau

Syllabus of the Subject: Doing Business in Guinea-Bissau (West Africa).
- Introduction to the Republic of Guinea-Bissau (West Africa)
- Bissau-Guinean Economy
- International Trade of Guinea-Bissau
- Business and Investment Opportunities in Guinea-Bissau
- Agro-processing industries
- Fisheries
- Mining
- Tourism
- Energy
- Guinea-Bissau Expansion Corporation
- Introduction to Portuguese
- Access to the Bissau-Guinean Market
- Business Plan for Guinea-Bissau
The purposes of the subject “Foreign Trade and Doing Business in the Republic of Guinea-Bissau”
are the following:
- To analyse the Bissau-Guinean economy and foreign trade
- To evaluate the business opportunities in the Republic of Guinea-Bissau
- To explore Guinea-Bissau's trade relations with the country of the student
- To know Guinea-Bissau's Free Trade Agreements
- To develop a business plan for the Bissau-Guinean Market
Sample of the subject - Doing Business in Guinea-Bissau:

EENI Proffesors from Guinea-Bissau
- Dr Fernandinho Domingos
- Adérito Fernandes
Hispano-African University of International Business


Description of the Subject (Online Learning): Foreign Trade and Business in Guinea-Bissau
The Republic of Guinea-Bissau: one of the ten poorest countries in the World.
- Bissau-Guinean Population: 1.5 millions of people
- The official language is Portuguese (only 14% speak Portuguese) and Creole
- Capital: Bissau (400,000)
- Borders of Guinea-Bissau: Senegal and Guinea
- The total area of Guinea-Bissau: 36 120 square kilometers
- Independence of Guinea-Bissau from Portugal: 1973
Main religions in Guinea-Bissau:
- African Traditional Religions
- Christianity
- Islam (50% of the Bissau-Guinean population, 0.7
million).
Guinea-Bissau belongs to the West African Economic Area (African Civilisation).
Economy of Guinea-Bissau:
Economic growth in the Republic of Guinea-Bissau (Africa)
picked up slightly to 3.6% thanks to higher international prices of cashew nut, sustained construction of private housing, and major
infrastructure projects.
- The impact of the global economic crisis in the Republic of Guinea-Bissau felt principally through lower Government export revenues and remittances, has been alleviated by a strong increase in the global demand for cashew nuts
- Guinea-Bissau is one of the ten world's poorest countries
- Bissau-Guinean agriculture: 12% of the total area the Republic of Guinea-Bissau (38.4% is pasture, Forests 38.1%)
- The Republic of Guinea-Bissau makes most of its turnover with exports of cashew nuts
- Guinea-Bissau harvests of various fruits (bananas, little mango flavour)
- Guinea-Bissau has many natural resources, whose reserves are scarcely exploited (phosphates, bauxite, and petroleum)
- High traffic of arms and drugs
- Military coup in 2012
- Bissau-Guinean GDP growth: 2.8%
- Access to the Port of Dakar (Senegal) and the Dakar-Lagos Corridor

Guinea-Bissau's Preferential Trade Agreements:
- Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)
- West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU)
- Community of Sahel-Saharan States (CEN-SAD)
- African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA)
- The European Union:
- Africa-European Union Strategic Partnership (Cotonou)
- Generalised System of Preferences (GSP)
Guinea-Bissau is a member of:
- Organisation for the Harmonisation of Business Law in Africa (OHADA)
- Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)
- Forum on Sino-African Cooperation
- Afro-Arab Cooperation
- Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA)
- African Development Bank
- Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)
- Islamic Development Bank
- New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD)
- African Union (AU)
- Convention on Preventing and Combating Corruption
- Africa (Guinea-Bissau)-Asia Strategic Partnership
- Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries
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