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Simon White

Simon White is a specialist in place-based economic development, private sector and business development and business environment reform.

Female Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries

This summary of research by Maria Minniti and Wim Naudé on Female Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries provides an interesting snapshot on the gender dimensions of entrepreneurship in developing economies. It presents a series of stylized facts on what is known from the last 30 years of research on female self-employment

Private Sector and Enterprise Development Fostering Growth in MENA

Private Sector and Enterprise Development; Fostering Growth in the Middle East and North Africa is a 2010 book published by Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and written by Lois Stevenson, a Visiting Research Fellow at the IDRC in Cairo, Egypt. The book is concerned with the context for

Accelerating Entrepreneurship in the Arab World

This month, the World Economic Forum (WEF) and the Forum of Young Global Leaders (YGL), in collaboration with Booz & Company, launched the Accelerating Entrepreneurship in the Arab World report, which highlights ten recommendations to promote a vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystem across the region. Policy-makers, business leaders, academia and civil society

9 Wacky Student Business Plans That Could Succeed

This is a great little piece by David Koeppel in The Fiscal Times (24 October 2011) describing Columbia Business School Professor Murray Low’s work with students. Low welcomes creative craziness from his students because sometimes out of inspired madness, comes the next Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg. Students bring

New guidlines on business environment reform and the informal economy

The Donor Committee for Enterprise Development (DCED) has recently published guidelines for donor and development agencies on business environment reform and the informal economy. I was the principal author of this document, which was based on a discussion paper (see below), a major conference held in Cape Town in April

Doing Business 2012

The World Bank Group’s Doing Business team have just released the annual report for this year: Doing Business 2012: Doing Business in a More Transparent World. This is the ninth in a series of annual reports comparing business regulations in 183 economies. It measures regulations affecting 11 areas of

The magic sauce of entrepreneurship -- another Kauffman Foundation video

The Kauffman Foundation has released another video on entrepreneurship: the Kauffman Sketchbook series. These are are a useful way of getting a clear message across. This video is based on the Kauffman claim that “the best indicator of a country’s growth is the number of new firms started every