Place Based Economic Development with Simon White

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Private Sector Development

Simon White | Specialist in private sector development. Supporting business growth for more and better jobs.

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

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

The role of government

In efforts to promote entrepreneurship and innovation most attention is given how to development entrepreneurs. While it is generally recognised that there is no entrepreneurial gene that is passed on from one generation to the next and that entrepreneurs are made and not born entrepreneurial, a high degree of attention