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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.

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

Boulevard of Broken Dreams

Josh Lerner (2009) Boulevard of Broken Dreams: why public efforts to boost entrepreneurship and venture capital have failed–and what to do about it, Princeton University Press, Princeton Discussing the complex history of Silicon Valley and other pioneering centers of venture capital, Josh Lerner uncovers the extent of government influence

Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Flight Global Poverty

Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo (2011) Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Flight Global Poverty, Public Affairs, New York For more than fifteen years Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo have worked with the poor in dozens of countries spanning five continents, trying to understand the specific

Local entrepreneurship ecosystems

New from the Startup Foundation with support from the Kauffman Foundation, this site focuses on startup communities are around the world. The site asks people in the target cities to add their initiatives and events. It seeks to map local entrepreneurship ecosystems. In July of 2011, Startup Weekend and The

A case of social entrepreneurship in the Philippines

An interesting example of low cost technology and entrepreneurship in the Philippines, but is this “social entrepreneurship”? [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBWi3NtND68]

Promoting competitive industries in a high-growth country

This interesting post from the World Bank’s blog on private sector development cites Ricardo Hausmann, Professor of Economic Development at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and Director of Harvard’s Center of International Development and Dani Rodrik, Professor of International Political Economy at the Kennedy School and