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, monetary policy tightens in advanced economies, and global trade gradually slows (World Bank Global Economic Prospects, January …
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This report presents the results of various experimental studies that try to address, from different perspectives, the challenges of supporting the growth and profitability of women entrepreneurs. In Mexico, women tend to be overrepresented in the category of microentrepreneurs, who often have...
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The report focuses on sectoral choice as one of the contributors to the gender gap in firm performance. It explores the difference in profits among female entrepreneurs who cross over into male-dominated sectors (MDS) compared to those who remain in traditionally female-concentrated sectors...
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World Bank's Ukraine Technical Assistance on Innovation, supported by the Swedish Ukraine Financial and Enterprise Sector …
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international businesses, as well as the donor community, entrepreneurship is beginning to emerge as a crucial element in any … higher operating costs. Poor quality in education and professional training reinforce these challenges, limiting job …
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In face of growing concern related to climate change, green technology entrepreneurs are critically needed to develop the businesses and ideas behind climate mitigation in developing countries - but they frequently collide with challenges endemic to such environments. The purpose of this study...
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energy costs, creating jobs, and increasing economic opportunity. A World Bank Group (WBG) team, together with the support of …Climate-smart development is a rapidly growing area in Morocco, and indeed much of the world. It has simultaneously … Cluster Solaire's and the Moroccan Agency for Sustainable Energy (MASEN), undertook a climate entrepreneurship ecosystem …
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This report provides a diagnostic of Viet Nam's entrepreneurship ecosystem and details a set of targeted … recommendations for improving conditions for innovative entrepreneurship in the country. The diagnostic consists of four components: 1 … conditions. The report finds that the overall quality and the level of public support for entrepreneurship is low; founders have …
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Niger earns its foreign exchange mainly from uranium and gold, which has limited domestic economic linkages. Distant second, livestock export also provide important revenue to the country. Overall, most of the labor force is employed in a low productivity and shock prone rainfed agricultural...
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current health and education outcomes shape the productivity of the next generation of workers. In this way, it underscores … 2018 as part of the Human Capital Project (HCP), a lobal effort to accelerate progress towards a world where all children …
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