Innovation in business registration
Simon White | This article considers improvements in business registration in South Africa.
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Australia's rural entrepreneurs
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) launched a new report today: Perspectives on Regional Australia: Business Owners in Regions, 2011. Its findings reinforce the importance of the need for strong business base for rural and regional communities. My work in these regions has focused on the creation of local enterprise
The perspectives of three youth entrepreneurs
The Centre of International Private Enterprise (CIPE) has just produced a lovely collection of three essays by youth entrepreneurs from its CIPE’s 2012 International Youth Essay Competition. Each essay presents a perspective of a young person on youth entrepreneurship, social enterprises and the society they live in.
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UK Government’s Better Regulation Manual and Red Tape Challenge
In July 2013 the UK Department for Business, Innovation and Skills published the Better Regulation Framework Manual. This manual is intended for policy-makers, as well as economists, social researchers, lawyers and those specialising in better regulation. It contains guidance for those who are involved in developing or implementing policies that
Lebanon's business environment
A perspective on Lebanon’s business environment that draws largely from the World Bank’s Doing Business indicators: “The red lines in the Lebanese flag extend to its business environment“.
In a linked article, the broader concerns of political instability are raised. It brings up the common question regarding the
"How do we get government to listen?"
Last week I was in Gaborone at a meeting of representative of the Botswana business community. I have been commissioned by the Botswana Confederation of Commerce, Industry and Manpower (BOCCIM) to help them prepare a Business Advocacy Agenda and Strategy.
While we began prioritising the advocacy items that BOCCIM wanted
New guidelines on industrial policy and business environment reform
The Donor Committee for Enterprise Development (DCED) has just published guidelines for donor and development agencies on how to complement business environment reforms with industrial policy. I was the principal author of this document, which was based on a background paper and on broad consultation with members of the DCED