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The impact of the business environment on the business creation process
Klapper, Leora - 2009
"New data from the 2008 World Bank Group Entrepreneurship Survey indicates a very strong and statistically significant … fostering formal sector entrepreneurship. "--World Bank web site … relationship between entrepreneurship and a better business environment. Data for 100 countries on the number of total and newly …
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Framing the Global Landscape of Entrepreneurship Education and Training Programs
World Bank - 2014
Entrepreneurship is of fundamental importance as a catalyst for innovation, job creation, and economic well …-being. Policymakers have a strong interest in promoting entrepreneurship given that its development is necessary for fighting poverty and … unemployment. This paper is an initial contribution to help fill gap, performing a systematic review of Entrepreneurship Education …
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Entrepreneurship Snapshots 2010 : Measuring the Impact of the Financial Crisis on New Business Registration
World Bank - 2012
New businesses are likely to have been even more severely affected by the crisis than mature businesses, even in non crisis times, new and young firms tend to be more constrained than older firms which often have established reputations and enjoy easier access to finance. Given the sudden...
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Innovation and development around the world, 1960-2000
Lederman, Daniel - 2005
"The authors present a database of indicators of innovative activity around the world since the early 1960s. The data …) with respect to the level of development. "--World Bank web site …
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Patenting and research and development : a global view
Bosch, Mariano - 2005
, affect the transformation of research and development into patents. "--World Bank web site …
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Case Study 3 - El Salvador : Participation in Macroeconomic Policy Making and Reform
World Bank - 2012
1992 was both a year of bitterness and hope. A decade of civil war had devastated the country but left no clear winner or loser; it was time to try peace. The governing ARENA party and the FMLN rebels signed peace accords requiring the demobilization of the FMLN and its incorporation into the...
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Sri Lanka : Development Policy Review
World Bank - 2013
This report provides an integrated view of Sri Lanka's long term development challenges for sustainable growth and poverty reduction. Sri Lanka's substantial achievements in human development are well known. In several dimensions - such as universal primary enrollment, gender equality, infant...
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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
years, there has been a surge in tech start-ups across the world. Fueled by global technology-led cost reductions and …
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