Promoting Youth Entrepreneurship in Pakistan
Posted by Hammad Siddiqui| April 9, 2012
Promoting entrepreneurship is an important priority for Pakistan’s economic development. According to Global Entrepreneurship Monitor’s 2010 report, Pakistan lags in startups, with less than half the rate of early-stage entrepreneurial activity found in other factor-driven economies. Part of the problem is that most young people coming out of universities prefer searching for a job instead of exploring entrepreneurial career opportunities – one of the key findings of CIPE-P@SHA dialogue with students and start-ups. Even young people who choose to enter paid employment often have trouble finding a job, are badly paid, or wind up in casual or informal jobs, according to the World Bank.
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Loading ...A Revolution in Higher Education and Entrepreneurship
Posted by Emad Sohail| April 5, 2012
The OECD has been working extensively on education; its top of the line agenda is to achieve quality education system in OECD countries. The center of a quality education system is innovation and knowledge management, which can help to foster economic growth, provided entrepreneurship and research in the country is playing a pivotal role, because innovation and knowledge management can answer following questions:
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(8 votes) Loading ...Lviv: Between East and West
Posted by Frank Brown| April 4, 2012
One of the nominees for best foreign-language film at this year’s Academy Awards was the movie “In Darkness” set in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv during World War II. The film is a fictionalized account of how a group of Jews survived in the sewers of Lviv during the Nazi’s World War II occupation.
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(3 votes) Loading ...Building Institutions for Economic Growth
Posted by Jon Custer| April 3, 2012
It is widely recognized that encouraging long-term economic growth requires competition, innovation, and the spread of new technologies. But these all require sound underlying institutions, the rule of law, and a state committed to the efficient provision of public goods. In the latest Economic Reform Feature Servicearticle, Dr. Boris Begović, President of the Center for Liberal-Democratic Studies and a professor at the University of Belgrade School of Law, argues that these fundamental requirements are interlocking, and all must be present for economic growth to take hold.
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Posted by Brandon Nickerson| April 3, 2012
This week, the IMF is back in Egypt to meet with government leaders to discuss a proposed $3.2 billion loan to the country’s transitional government. So far, the package has yet to garner support from either the Muslim Brotherhood or leading Salafist party Al-Nour, both of whom are waiting to hear more details about the economic measures related to the package.
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