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Quarterly Newsletter – October 2023

In September, Invest Salone attended the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE) annual conference. Invest Salone consultant, Pooja Melwani, was invited to speak and shared our experience of the broad range of private sector development strategies we employ to support the private and public sectors in tackling constraints to doing business in Sierra Leone.

Topic: Investment, Sustainable business

Sector: Business, Fashion, Investment, Textiles

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