The report was commissioned by the Research Council of Norway in order to provide a state of the art account of how to link human rights and private enterprises. ...

This article examines how clustering affects the entry and exit decisions of farm households into and from nonfarm enterprises in rural Ethiopia. We find ...

This paper analyses the business environment for micro enterprises in Tanzania based on survey data. The primary objective of the study is to identify ...

The aim of the Baseline Survey was to generate information on the characteristics of entrepreneurs and enterprises in the Erongo and Otjozondjupa regions ...

Name: Merima Ali Research interests: Micro- and small-scale enterprises, cluster development and informal networks Geographical areas: Ethiopia and ...

Les femmes, chefs d'enterprise dans la pêche piroguières au Ghana: Le cas de la ville fante de More

The project on Community development with traditional leaders funded by the Norwegian Embassy and implemented by Matantala Rural Integrated Development ...

Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) have been described as ‘the backbone' of the economy of the Western Balkans.Indeed, with SMEs making up ...

By contrasting the performance of clustered microenterprises with that of dispersed ones in the handloomsector in Ethiopia, this study shows that clustering ...

Cluster development programs have become increasingly widespread tools in fostering innovation and growth of a competitive private sector in developing ...

One of the more interesting traits of barter trade in the transition economies is the participation of foreign owned enterprises. As a rule, barter exchange ...

Review of Matantala Rural Integrated Enterprise and the Community Development with Traditional Lead

Humanitarian intervention has increasingly become the prevalent means of providing protection and aid at a global level. Yet alongside its success concerns ...

  Using data from microenterprises of the handloom sector in four regions of Ethiopia, the paper shows that clustering, through specialization and ...

In today's Egypt, you cannot miss it: the heavy presence of the military institution in the economy. The Egyptian military owns business enterprises that ...

How does the strategic interaction between modern law and customs work? How poor are the poor? These are among the questions that will be discussed in the Bergen Seminar in Development Economics.

We analyze impacts of a cluster policy aiming to increase firm growth through maximizing agglomeration benefits and improving production facilities. Firms ...

The Karrayu in the Upper Awash Valley are nomadic pastoralists with a traditional migratory pastoral mode of existence. Expanding and 'disempowering' development interventions in the form of large-scale agricultural enterprises and conservation schemes, threaten the Karrayu's traditional way of living.

CMI conducted a survey of partnerships between Norwegian NGOs and business enterprises. Partnerships, especially those that include governments in the ...

Developing countries could raise substantial domestic revenues by strengthening tax legislation and administration, but a lack of global regulations to address cross-border tax evasion is slowing down the process.