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Better business regulations create jobs

Better business regulations create jobs

Business environment reform for job creation I this post, I explore how business environment reform nurtures job creation. The World Bank’s annual Doing Business assessment was released today with some important claims regarding the impact of regulatory reform on job creation. There has been much debate over the years

Small Business Development

SME Development Agencies

Over the last few months, I’ve provided advice to a number of government funded national SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) development agencies. Such agencies are very popular among governments, but less so among enterprise development specialist. While they can focus government efforts on supporting the small business sector, they

The failure of community economic development

The failure of community economic development

I began my professional working life in the field of ‘community economic development’ (CED) and ‘local economic development’ (LED). These models of development provide an important contribution to understanding the problems facing local communities, but they are often seen as a poor cousin to ‘real’ economic development. Whilst this is

Global supply chains

Global economy drives SME growth and job creation

This article examines how the global economy drives SME growth and job creation. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play an important role in economic development and job creation. While the general features of this role are understood, there are many features of this that require more research. Of particular interest

Blue economy

Blue entrepreneurship

Blue entrepreneurship is about treating our marine environments better and in a more sustainable manner. It creates the opportunity to rethink how we manage resources and generate new economic and employment opportunities. Many local economies around the world rely on the blue economy for jobs and income. Oceans are fundamental

Job creation

Supporting Local, High-Growth Entrepreneurship

Many government and development agencies aim to support local, high-growth entrepreneurship. Last month I chaired an Economic Development Australia seminar on Supporting Local, High-Growth Entrepreneurship [presentations and report available here]. This seminar examined the opportunities for developing practical local policies and programs to support high-growth entrepreneurship. High-growth entrepreneurs, often known

Formalising smallholder agriculture and agri-business: what the evidence says

Formalising smallholder agriculture and agri-business: what the evidence says

I’m a little late posting this, but I think the findings of this study I conducted on the formalisation of smallholder agriculture and agri-business are quite relevant and interesting. I was commissioned by the DFID-funded Business Environment Reform Facility to review the evidence available on how business environment reform