Project
Promoting entrepreneurial capacity
Theme: 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...
Policy Brief
Promoting Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries
This policy brief provides some fresh perspectives on the relationship between entrepreneurship and development, and considers policy design issues. It reports on the UNU-WIDER two-year research project 'Promoting Entrepreneurial Capacity', which...
Journal Special Issue
Entrepreneurship, Developing Countries and Development Economics
We 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. With more than a billion people living in absolute poverty it is of...
Blog
Female Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries
by
Maria Minniti, Wim Naudé
August 2010
Maria Minniti and Wim Naudé In recent years, the rate of new business formation by women has significantly outpaced the rate of new business formation...
Blog
Conflict and Entrepreneurship in Afghanistan
by
Tommaso Ciarli, Saeed Parto, Maria Savona
November 2009
Tommaso Ciarli, Saeed Parto and Maria Savona Afghanistan remains one of the poorest countries in the world with an estimated per capita income of 300...
Blog
Owning our destiny: economic prospects for Africa
by
Yemi Kale
September 2024
Yemi Kale is the Group Chief Economist of the African Export-Import Bank. In this editorial, he reflects on the prospects for Africa’s future...
Blog
Mobilizing Talent for Global Development
by
Andrés Solimano
2008
by Andrés Solimano Talented individuals such as students, professionals, information technology experts, entrepreneurs, cultural workers, and others...
Blog
Experimentation and Co-ordination as Industrial Policy: Examples from Ethiopia and Chile
by
Mulu Gebreeyesus, Michiko Iizuka
September 2010
Mulu Gebreeyesus and Michiko Iizuka Industrial policy can be defined as the policies that stimulate specific economic activities and promote...
Blog
The International Mobility of Talent: Determinants and Development Impact
by
Andrés Solimano
2005
by Andrés Solimano There is a growing recognition of the importance for economic growth and development of ‘intangibles’ such as technology, ideas...
Blog
Entrepreneurship in Iraq: Understanding the Constraints
by
Sameeksha Desai
November 2009
Sameeksha Desai Across countries, entrepreneurship is shown to support wealth and income generation, job creation and innovations in product and...
Blog
The Entrepreneurship-Innovation Nexus in Development
by
Wim Naudé, Adam Szirmai
March 2011
Wim 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...
Blog
China and India’s Development Strategies: Lessons for Developing Countries
by
Amelia U. Santos-Paulino, Guanghua Wan
October 2010
Amelia U. Santos-Paulino and Guanghua Wan China and India have become global economic powers. Even at the market exchange rate, China overtook Japan...