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Work Integrated Social Enterprises : balancing social impact and economic sustainability through governance and policy support

Andrén, Daniela; Kremel, Anna - 2025

Work Integrated Social Enterprises (WISEs) have emerged as a powerful and dynamic force in redefining the established norms while enhancing sustainability, promoting integration and nurturing more inclusive working societies by addressing employment barriers for marginalized groups. Using data...

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Ashoka Fellows Change the World

Wells, Diana - In: Development Outreach 12 (2010) 1, pp. 36-37

While reducing the cost of solar energy and increasing the income of rural farmers are big problems, these specific problems will be solved and there will be new problems.

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China’s International Poverty Reduction Center as a Platform for South-South Learning

Wu, Zhong; Karp, Philip; Wang, Yan - In: Development Outreach 12 (2010) 2, pp. 32-34

After attending a South-South experience-sharing event in China, a number of African officials wondered: “How come China is able to develop and retain its implementation capacity, whereas our countries suffer from brain-drain?”

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Entry Regulation and the Formalization of Microenterprises in Developing Countries

Bruhn, Miriam; McKenzie, David - In: World Bank Research Observer 29 (2014) 2, pp. 186-201

The majority of microenterprises in most developing countries remain informal despite more than a decade of reforms aimed at making it easier and cheaper for them to formalize. This paper summarizes the evidence on the effects of entry reforms and related policy actions to promote firm...

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Drivers of Entrepreneurship and Post-entry Performance of Newborn Firms in Developing Countries

Quatraro, Francesco; Vivarelli, Marco - In: World Bank Research Observer 30 (2015) 2, pp. 277-305

particular focus on developing countries (DCs). In particular, the concept of “entrepreneurship” is critically discussed …

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Nine Lives of Neoliberalism

Plehwe, Dieter (contributor); Slobodian, Quinn (contributor) - 2020

Neoliberalism is dead. Again. Yet the philosophy of the free market and the strong state has an uncanny capacity to survive and even thrive in crisis. This volume breaks with the caricature of neoliberalism as a simple belief in market fundamentalism to show how neoliberal thinkers developed...

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Introduction

Slobodian, Quinn; Plehwe, Dieter - In: Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, (pp. 1-17). 2020

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2D:4D and Self-Employment: A Preregistered Replication Study in a Large General Population Sample

Fossen, Frank M.; Neyse, Levent; Johannesson, Magnus; … - In: Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 46 (2022) 1, pp. 21-43

The 2D: 4D digit ratio, the ratio of the length of the second finger to the length of the fourth finger, is often considered a proxy for testosterone exposure in utero. A recent study reported, among other things, an association between the left-hand 2D:4D and self-employment in a sample of 974...

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Mapping of innovation as instrument for business enhancement : a bibliometric review

Hidrobo-Morales, J. Tatiana; Marcillo-Delgado, Juan C.; … - In: Journal of open innovation : technology, market, and … 11 (2025) 1, pp. 1-18

interests. At the individual theme level, artificial intelligence, business models, entrepreneurship, and sustainability are … developed economies such as the United States and Western Europe, it plays a significant role in driving entrepreneurship …

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What role does digitalization play in the entrepreneurship-sustainable development nexus in Africa?

Osinubi, Tolulope T.; Ajide, Folorunsho M.; Simatele, … - In: Journal of open innovation : technology, market, and … 11 (2025) 1, pp. 1-10

and equitable quality of life, healthcare, and education worldwide. Entrepreneurship and digitalization are widely … nexus between entrepreneurship and sustainable development in Africa between 2006 and 2019. This is crucial in this era of … digital technologies, especially in Africa where entrepreneurship may serve as a bedrock for economic development and growth …

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