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Tech Start-up Ecosystem in Beirut : Findings and Recommendations
World Bank - 2017
Technology is one of the main drivers of productivity and economic growth. Developing countries have traditionally had difficulties in both developing technology and absorbing foreign technology. However, the recent emergence of tech startups present an opportunity. Tech start-ups are an...
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Tech Start-up Ecosystem in Dar es Salaam : Findings and Recommendations
World Bank - 2017
Technology is one of the main drivers of productivity and economic growth. Developing countries have traditionally had difficulties in both developing technology and absorbing foreign technology. Seventy to eighty percent of the productivity gap between developed and developing countries is...
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Nuturing Innovation : Venture Acceleration Networks, A Review of Existing Models
World Bank - 2013
This report evaluates the role, operational models and identifies good practices of programs that seek to accelerate innovative entrepreneurship by managing, nurturing and leveraging social and business networks. The report discusses the role of venture acceleration networks, using networks to...
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TB Control
World Bank - 2012
Despite the discovery fifty years ago, of drugs that can cure tuberculosis (TB), the disease still remains a top killer worldwide. The note stipulates that one third of the world's population is infected by Mycrobacterium Tuberculosis, and while ninety percent of infected individuals never...
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Urban risk assessments : an approach for understanding disaster and climate risk in cities
2012
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Strong, safe, and resilient : a strategic policy guide for disaster risk management in East Asia and the Pacific
Jha, Abhas Kumar (contributor);  … - 2013
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World Development Report 2014 : Risk and Opportunity - Managing Risk for Development
World Bank - 2013
successfully confront risks that are beyond their means by sharing their risk management with others. This can be done through …?have the potential to support people?s risk management in different yet complementary ways. The Report focuses on some of the … governments improve their own risk management, and ... …
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Credit risk measurement under Basel II : an overview and implementation issues for developing countries
Stephanou, Constantinos - 2005
"The objective of this paper is to provide an overview of the changes in the calculation of minimum regulatory capital requirements for credit risk that have been drafted by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (Basel II). Even though the revised credit capital rules represent a dramatic...
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Rapid onset natural disasters : the role of financing in effective risk management
Lester, Rodney - 2004
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Combining insurance, contingent debt, and self-retention in an optimal corporate risk financing strategy
Gurenko, Eugene - 2003
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