Früher waren Bildung, Gesundheit und Armut in Entwicklungsländern vornehmlich Gegenstand von Politik und Entwicklungsökonomie. Heute nehmen sich zunehmend auch multinationale Unternehmen (MNU) dieser Themen im Rahmen von Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) an. Bei CSR geht es im...

This report summarises the findings of a case study project on growing clean-tech cluster activity in the Negev region of Israel as part of a series of reviews on Entrepreneurship, SMEs and Local Development carried out by the Local Economic and Employment Development (LEED) Committee of the...

This paper presents an original novel metric for assessing economic activity at local level: Local Business Environment Index (LBEI). In the development of this metric system we explore a large set of variables that are disaggregated at municipal level for the case study of Romania. Following...