For Learning, Insights & Perspective – A blog by Consultancy Services Group

Afghan Carpet – Better Marketing Strategy can Bring Smiles to Millions

If you ask a weaver in Afghanistan, s/he will say ‘each carpet tells a story’. Such is the intense passion in which the art of carpet weaving is practiced in this country.
Yet, battered by war and due to lack of frontline marketing infrastructure, the sector remains a victim of financial ills & neglect.
Is there a [...]

Bangladesh’s Signing FTA with India will Benefit the Nation

Bangladesh is one of the poorest nations in the world and natural calamities in recent times have made it even worse for the people living there. The nation does not have enough natural resources for industrial production. People live mostly on agriculture but every other year flood destroys the crop, farmers lose their livelihood
In contrast, [...]

Alternative Livelihood – An Important Vehicle for Growth in Afghanistan

The war torn Afghanistan has shown little signs of overall economic recovery despite the large scale largesse and multi sectoral work by the international donor agencies. The plight of the people at large continues to be woeful at the lowest economic subsistence level.
Breaking the conventional norms, Alternative Livelihood Programmes (ALPs), on the other hand [...]