Policy Forum Blog
- The State of Entrepreneurship in Malaysia
- Today, we start the seven day countdown for the Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship, and I want to take the opportunity to highlight a nation where entrepreneurship is starting to bloom: Malaysia. Although not yet a start-up economy, the desire for entrepreneurship and innovation are there,...
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Posted by: Jonathan Ortmans
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April 19, 2010
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Global
- Entrepreneurship in Saudi Arabia
- Last Friday, I had the opportunity to join an extraordinary group of women entrepreneurs mostly from Saudi Arabia for a lunch at the home of the Honorable Esther Coopersmith. All were both proud of their higher education in Saudi Arabia and had started companies in...
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Posted by: Jonathan Ortmans
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April 12, 2010
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- The State of Entrepreneurship in Egypt
- Last June, President Obama announced in Cairo, Egypt that the U.S. government will host a Summit on Entrepreneurship to identify how we can deepen ties between leaders, foundations, and entrepreneurs in the U.S. and Muslim communities around the world. Throughout April leading up to the...
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Posted by: Jonathan Ortmans
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March 29, 2010
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Global
- Global Entrepreneurship Policy Dialogues in Washington, DC
- Washington, D.C, the capital of one of the most entrepreneurial economies and home to the largest international development organizations is alive for this, Global Entrepreneurship Week. Policy events will focus, like others around the world, on the need to globally unleash a new wave of...
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Posted by: Jonathan Ortmans
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November 16, 2009
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Global
- Cultural Capital for Entrepreneurs
- The record number of pro-entrepreneurship legal and regulatory reforms in the past year among the economies studied by the World Bank’s Doing Business project is welcome news during a time of global economic recession. Prioritizing reforms and learning from global best practices hold enormous potential...
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Posted by: Jonathan Ortmans
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November 09, 2009
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General
Global
- Big Ideas from "Green" Entrepreneurs?
- The World Bank is looking for a few bright ideas from the next generation of "green" entrepreneurs. It is sponsoring an international essay contest for 18-25 year olds to share ideas for youth-led solutions to challenges posed by climate change. The challenge casts a...
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Posted by: Mark Marich
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February 11, 2009
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Global
- Comparing Global Data on Entrepreneurship
- As governments across the globe have become more aggressive in promoting innovation and entrepreneurship, they have also increased their demand for new data about these phenomena. Responding to this demand, two well-known data sets---the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) and the World Bank Group Entrepreneurship Survey---have...
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Posted by: Mark Marich
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January 14, 2009
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- The Secrets of High Growth Economies
- What factors differentiate fast-growing national economies from the rest of the world? A new article in the World Bank’s Finance & Development magazine examines 13 national economies that have succeeded in growing at an average annual rate exceeding seven percent for at least 25...
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Posted by: Mark Marich
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January 02, 2009
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