SMEs key to sustainable growth
Egypt, Global

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are the engines of global economic growth and employment...

Employment
Growth
Industry
SMEs
Inclusion in entrepreneurship, especially of women, youth and unemployed: status and an agenda for research in Middle East and North Africa
Regional

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) has a desire to include more people in entrepreneurship...

Public policies
SMEs
Unemployment
Women
Youth
PME Tunisiennes : Comment saisir les opportunités des Chaînes de Valeur Mondiales
Tunisia

This economic policy note proposes to take stock of Tunisia's integration into GVCs, to identify the...

SMEs
Value chains
New Mindset, Increased Profits: Lessons from an Innovative Entrepreneurial Training in Togo
Regional

Research has shown that traditional business training does not often increase profits of small...

Entrepreneurs
Innovation
Skills
SMEs
Youth
Egypt’s National Strategy for the Development of Organic Clusters: 2019-30
Egypt

The importance of clusters to the economic and social development of countries around the world has...

MSMEs
Public policies
SMEs
Support
Value chains
Do entrepreneurship policies work? Evidence from 460 start-up program competitions across the globe
Global

Many organizations around the world implement programs designed to encourage entrepreneurship...

Entrepreneurs
Impact evaluations
SMEs
Startups
Youth
Identifying and spurring high-growth entrepreneurship: Experimental evidence from a business plan competition
Regional

Almost all firms in developing countries have fewer than ten workers, with a modal size of one. Are...

Competition
Employment
Entrepreneurs
Impact evaluations
Sustainability
Entrepreneurship and the Process of Firms Entry, Survival and Growth
Global

This survey article aims at critically discussing the recent literature on firm formation and...

Economy
Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurship
Growth
Sustainability
National survey on the informal sector 2013-2014
Morocco

The National Survey on the Informal Sector (undeclared non-agricultural production units) covered a...

Informal sector
Labour
MSMEs
Private sector
SMEs