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New economist at CMI
News | 29 Jun 2012
Name: Merima Ali
Research interests: Micro- and small-scale enterprises, cluster development and informal networks
Geographical areas: Ethiopia ...
Farm households and nonfarm activities in Ethiopia: Does clustering influence entry and exit?
Journal Article | Apr 2012
This article examines how clustering affects the entry and exit decisions of farm households into and from nonfarm enterprises in rural Ethiopia. ...
Nonfarm enterprises, Clustering, Entry and exit, Household welfare, Africa, Ethiopia
Human rights and private enterprise: With an emphasis on companies operating abroad
Report in External Series | Jan 2000
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 ...
Human rights, Private enterprise, Multinational corporations, Code of conduct, Global
Bribes, Taxes and Regulations: Business Constraints for Micro Enterprises in Tanzania
CMI Working Paper | Jan 2006
This paper analyses the business environment for micro enterprises in Tanzania based on survey data. The primary objective of the study is to ...
Small enterprise, Business constriants, Taxation, Corruption, Tanzania
Informal trade networks
Project | Jan 2004 - Jan 2005
One of the more interesting traits of barter trade in the transition economies is the participation of foreign owned enterprises. As a rule, ...
The 1999 Small Business Baseline Survey
Commissioned Report | Jan 1999
The aim of the Baseline Survey was to generate information on the characteristics of entrepreneurs and enterprises in the Erongo and Otjozondjupa ...
Small enterprises, Namibia
Review of Matantala Rural Integrated Enterprise and the community development with traditional leaders programme
Report in External Series | Sep 2009
The project on Community development with traditional leaders funded by the Norwegian Embassy and implemented by Matantala Rural Integrated ...
Zambia
Trading in corruption: Evidence and mitigation measures for corruption in the trading of oil and minerals
U4 Issue | Jun 2017
Between 2011 and 2013, sales of government oil from the ten biggest producers in sub-Saharan Africa accounted for 56% of these countries’ ...
natural resource management, oil, minerals, resource curse, commodity trading, corruption, national oil companies, state-owned enterprises, extractive revenue misappropriation
Africa needs international tax regulations
News | 17 Sep 2012
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.
CSR in the Arab World: A mission impossible?
News | 25 Feb 2013
CSR is on the rise in the Arab World, but the initiators find it difficult to root the concept beyond the ranks of state-owned enterprises and crony capitalists. - When CSR projects are initiated in Arab countries, they do not enter an empty void. Many businessmen have pre-existing conceptions of social responsibility, originated in Islam, says CMI-researcher Kjetil Selvik.
Strengthening tax systems in developing countries
News | 19 Dec 2013
How can donors strengthen tax systems in developing countries? By complementing their technical approach with measures to build a taxpayer culture, and challenging development countries to take the lead, says CMI researcher Odd-Helge Fjeldstad.
Active private sector development policies revisited: Impacts of the Ethiopian industrial cluster policy
Journal Article | Jun 2019
We analyze impacts of a cluster policy aiming to increase firm growth through maximizing agglomeration benefits and improving production facilities. ...
Agglomeration, Productivity, Profitability, Networks, Micro and Small Enterprises, MSE, SME, Ethiopia
Les femmes, chefs d'enterprise dans la pêche piroguières au Ghana: Le cas de la ville fante de Moree
Book Chapter | Jan 2000
Les femmes, chefs d'enterprise dans la pêche piroguières au Ghana: Le cas de la ville fante de More
Egypt’s Military Business: The Need for Change
Newspaper Op-Ed | Nov 2015
In today's Egypt, you cannot miss it: the heavy presence of the military institution in the economy. The Egyptian military owns business enterprises ...
Egypt, business, military, economy
Corruption and doing business in Serbia
U4 Brief | Oct 2007
Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) have been described as ‘the backbone' of the economy of the Western Balkans.Indeed, with SMEs ...
private sector, corruption, Serbia
ValueAdded of ClusterMembership for MicroEnterprises of the HandloomSector in Ethiopia
Journal Article | Jan 2011
By contrasting the performance of clustered microenterprises with that of dispersed ones in the handloomsector in Ethiopia, this study shows ...
cluster, microenterprises, propensity score matching, handloom, Africa, Ethiopia, Ethiopia
Government's role in cluster development for MSEs: Lessons from Ethiopia
CMI Report | Sep 2012
Cluster development programs have become increasingly widespread tools in fostering innovation and growth of a competitive private sector in ...
Micro- and small-scale enterprises, Industrial clusters, Cluster development policies, Ethiopia
The Politics of Humanitarianism. Power, Ideology and Aid
Edited Book | Jan 2016
Humanitarian intervention has increasingly become the prevalent means of providing protection and aid at a global level. Yet alongside its success ...
Clustering as an Organizational Response to Capital Market Inefficiency:Evidence from Handloom Enterprises in Ethiopia
Report in External Series | Jan 2010
Using data from microenterprises of the handloom sector in four regions of Ethiopia, the paper shows that clustering, through specialization ...
clustering, industrialization, finance, microenterprises, Ethiopia, Ethiopia
Human and financial capital for microenterprise development: Evidence from a field and lab experiment
Journal Article | Jan 2015
Microenterprises constitute an important source of employment, and developing such enterprises is a key policy concern in most countries. But ...