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Promoting entrepreneurial capacityTheme: 2008-09
Entrepreneurship can play an important role in structural economic change and in improving wellbeing. Governments and international institutions are investing increasing resources to promote entrepreneurship. This project aims at a greater...
Development and Finance Entrepreneurship Economic developmentPolicy Brief
Promoting Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries: Policy ChallengesThis policy brief provides some fresh perspectives on the relationship between entrepreneurship and development, and considers policy design issues...
Economic policy (Business enterprises) Economic development EntrepreneurshipJournal Special Issue
Entrepreneurship, Developing Countries and Development EconomicsWe are pleased to announce a Special Issue of the Small Business Economics Journal on Entrepreneurship, Developing Countries and Development Economics, guest edited by Wim Naudé...
Economic development EntrepreneurshipJournal Article
Entrepreneurship, Developing Countries, and Development Economics: New Approaches and InsightsPart of Journal Special Issue Entrepreneurship, Developing Countries and Development Economics
Economic development Entrepreneurship Structural adjustment (Economic policy)Research Brief
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Conflict and Entrepreneurship in AfghanistanTommaso Ciarli, Saeed Parto and Maria Savona Afghanistan remains one of the poorest countries in the world with an estimated per capita income of 300 US dollars and average mortality age of 47 years...
Conflict management Economic development EntrepreneurshipBlog
Female Entrepreneurship in Developing CountriesMaria Minniti and Wim Naudé In recent years, the rate of new business formation by women has significantly outpaced the rate of new business formation by men across all ethnic groups in the USA...
Discrimination in employment Economic development EntrepreneurshipPolicy Brief
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Mobilizing Talent for Global Development
by Andrés Solimano Talented individuals such as students, professionals, information technology experts, entrepreneurs, cultural workers, and others are now more internationally mobile in the world economy as a response to new opportunities (a...
Globalization Labour mobilityBlog
Experimentation and Co-ordination as Industrial Policy: Examples from Ethiopia and ChileMulu Gebreeyesus and Michiko Iizuka Industrial policy can be defined as the policies that stimulate specific economic activities and promote structural changes...
Agriculture Economic development EntrepreneurshipBlog
Entrepreneurship in Iraq: Understanding the Constraints
Sameeksha Desai Across countries, entrepreneurship is shown to support wealth and income generation, job creation and innovations in product and process...
Conflict management Entrepreneurship Local historyResearch Brief
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The International Mobility of Talent: Determinants and Development Impact by Andrés Solimano There is a growing recognition of the importance for economic growth and development of ‘intangibles’ such as technology, ideas, creativity and innovation...
Human capital International economic relations Labour mobilityBlog
The Entrepreneurship-Innovation Nexus in DevelopmentWim Naudé and Adam Szirmai Nobody can be left in any doubt as to the importance of innovation for prosperity on reading [i] that ‘People living in the first decade of the twentieth century did not know modern dental and medical equipment...
Business enterprises Economic development EntrepreneurshipBlog
China and India’s Development Strategies: Lessons for Developing CountriesAmelia U. Santos-Paulino and Guanghua Wan China and India have become global economic powers. Even at the market exchange rate, China overtook Japan in 2010 as the second largest economy...
Economic development Poverty measurement Industrial policy