Après avoir analysé les développements récents de l’économie ivoirienne ainsi que ses perspectives pour le court et moyen termes, ce sixième rapport sur la situation économique en Côte d’ivoire s’intéresse aux moyens qui lui permettraient de rattraper son retard technologique.
... See More + Si le pays a retrouvé une trajectoire de forte croissance après plus d’une décennie d’instabilité politique, son objectif de devenir un pays émergent ne pourra être atteint sans des entreprises plus performantes, puisqu’elles sont le principal employeur du pays et génèrent l’essentiel de ses revenus.
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The objective of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Venture Capital Project is to strengthen risk capital financing for innovative SMEs and startups in Croatia.
... See More + The project is structured in three components: the first supporting the development of venture capital fund, the second financing seed co-investments, and the third providing for technical assistance. Activities under the first component have not been implemented. Limited progress has been registered under the remaining two components. Under component two, the first call for proposals for Seed Co-Investment Fund required an extension to attract interest at all, and still only a low number of applications was received. Under component three, capacity building activities have not been implemented as expected, resulting in missed learning opportunities for Government, investors and potential investees. Hence, progress towards achievement of the Project Development Objective (PDO) and implementation progress have been rated as ‘unsatisfactory’ as per the December 2017 ISR. The project will be closed with a rating in the ‘unsatisfactory’ range because the PDO has not been achieved and related activities have not been carried out. The exact rating will be determined with the note on cancelled operation (NCO) report.
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The development objective of the Mobile Innovation Project under EPIC Project for Caribbean aims (1) to strengthen the Caribbean mobile innovation ecosystem and (2) to enable sustainable and competitive mobile enterprises to grow.The project model is based on supporting and coordinating activities in locally based startup ecosystem hubs and the project consists of training courses, mobile app competitions, and support to promising entrepreneurs to launch their products,strengthen their market share and investment readiness.The Caribbean Mobile Innovation Project was initially designed as a 40-month project under the Entrepreneurship Program for Innovation in the Caribbean (EPIC).
... See More + The implementing agency, UWI Consortium, has been provided a grant by The World Bank Group on behalf of the Government of Canada in the amount of USD 1,500,000. The project implementation period commenced July 17, 2014 with a scheduled closing date of November 30, 2017.T he proposed change to the project is an extension of the grant closing date from November 30, 2017 to November 30, 2018. The requested extension is to ensure that UWI Consortium has adequate time to implement all the components of the project and meet the project objectives.
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This is a statement by H.E. Arun Jaitley, Minister of Finance, Corporate Affairs and Defense, at the ninety-fifth meeting of the Development Committee held on April 22, 2017.
... See More + IDA 18 will touch the lives of millions of people in the world’s poorest countries by providing them resources to grow and by creating opportunities for their upliftment. India is happy to pledge to this replenishment and thereby contribute to the ambitious developmental impact IDA 18 envisages to create. We have all gathered here to take a step forward in the direction of the mandate of Development Committee to advise the Boards of Governors of the Bank and the Fund on critical development issues and on the financial resources required to promote economic development in developing countries. Thus, our agenda of forward look and Shareholding Review are very pertinent and timely for discussing how to make the World Bank Group stronger for marshalling the financial resources required to promote economic development in developing countries.
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As activity ramps up in climate innovation for developing countries, organizations are finding that attracting quality talent and companies to such efforts is both a key success factor and one of the most intractable challenges in nascent clean tech sectors.
... See More + Boosting the profile of an organization that supports climate innovation greatly helps draw the diverse sources of expertise needed to enable bottom-up climate solutions. This brief examines lessons from the World Bank’s seven climate innovation centers on setting up buzzworthy hubs to attract top talent and companies in emerging clean tech markets.
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This document proposes a design for an enterprise support scheme in Świętokrzyskie and Podkarpackie regions of Poland. The objective of the Enterprise Competitiveness Scheme (ECS) is to support further competitiveness of Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in targeted regions to increase their contribution to regional economic growth, particularly through jobs.
... See More + The scheme will boost SMEs abilities to compete with firms outside their region, through increased exports and or outcompeting imports. The ECS will establish an enterprise support system that is focused on demand for services from SMEs, rather than on the supply of particular support initiatives from BSIs. In brief, the ECS is comprised of three windows for enterprise support services: Operational; Strategic; and Group. In all three windows, beneficiary Small and Medium- Size enterprises (SMEs) will receive public financial support for co-financing of business advisory services to improve competitiveness and contribute to regional economic growth.
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Working Paper 115354 JAN 01, 2017
Kilroy,Austin Francis Louis; Tekieli-Bisińska,Dorota; Szczucki,Jan; Gajewski,Maciej; Stronkowski,Piotr KarolEnglishDisclosed
