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Entrepreneurship
Enabling Private Sector Growth
Chair producer, Brazil. Lipszyc, World Bank
Enabling entrepreneurs to start and grow businesses can create jobs and income, stimulate innovation and provide more and lower-cost choices for consumers. A dynamic private sector can also generate tax revenues that governments can invest in public goods. However, entrepreneurs in developing countries face significant barriers.

TThis Cross-Topic Special describes why and how a competitive private sector can alleviate poverty in line with Millennium Development Goal 1 and Goal 8 , on eradicating extreme poverty and enabling private sector development. Highlights from 20 of the Development Gateway's topic pages and 4 country gateways describe barriers to private sector growth and initiatives to create new and expanded opportunities for entrepreneurship in developing countries.

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MDG related highlightBusiness Environment
An efficient and dynamic private sector is key to poverty reduction. More MORE
MDG related highlightPoverty
Can entrepreneurship break the vicious cycle of poverty? More MORE
MDG related highlightGovernance
Small business and the regulatory environment. More MORE
MDG related highlightGender and Development
Increasing security and opportunities for women in the informal economy. More MORE
MDG related highlightMicrofinance
Micro-credit and micro-business: bridging a market gap. More MORE
MDG related highlightNGOs
Are NGOs equipped to deliver microfinance effectively? More MORE
Aid Effectiveness
The effectiveness of business development services. More MORE
MDG related highlightCapacity Development for MDGs
Entrepreneurship efforts allow people to take charge of their livelihoods. More MORE
MDG related highlight Trade and Development
From small shop to million dollar company: enabling growth through trade. More MORE
Knowledge Economy
Strengthening SME innovation: the role of government. More MORE
Indigenous People
Copyright protects indigenous artisans and musicians in poor countries. More MORE
Culture & Development
Creative industries provide new opportunities for entrepreneurs. More MORE
MDG related highlight ICT for Development
ICT opens doors for entrepreneurial women. More MORE
MDG related highlightE-Commerce for Arts & Crafts
Azerbaijan Country Gateway - potential e-business hub for Central Asian crafts? More MORE
Foreign Direct Investments
Investment opportunities in Afghanistan? More MORE
Afghanistan Reconstruction
Making Afghanistan ready for investments. More MORE
MDG related highlight Youth for Development
Young entrepreneurs advocate entrepreneurship policies in Latin America. More MORE
MDG related highlightEnvironmental Law
Encouraging green entrepreneurship.More MORE
MDG related highlightFood Security
What is the role of the private sector in ensuring food security? More MORE
Argentina: Challenges and Opportunities
Argentina's civil society takes steps towards enabling entrepreneurship. More MORE
DG Expert Perspective:
Enabling Entrepreneurship in Africa
Luciano Borin
''A powerful way to reduce poverty is to strengthen productive sectors thus creating durable jobs and tax revenues for the government.'', says Mr. Luciano Borin, Director, Private Sector Operations, African Development Bank in this interview.  More  MORE
2005: International Year of Microcredit
The state of microfinance today. DG Expert Perspectives from:
Dr. Yunus
Dr. Yunus, Founder of Grameen Bank and Winner of the Petersberg Prize
Arnaud Ventura
Mr. Arnaud Ventura, Managing Director, Planet Finance. 
DG Country Perspectives
-  Tanzania:
Enabling business growth.
-  Peru:
E-entrepreneurship: the micro-business 'Internet booth.'
-  Armenia:
1. Background
2. Linking local ICT Enterprises to the diaspora and global markets.
-  Sri Lanka:
A sector based approach to business development
Partners
-  allAfrica.com
-  Rapid Response, The World Bank
-  International Network for SMEs
-  Planet Finance
-  Microfinance Gateway
-  Local Economic and Employment Development, OECD
-  Developing Markets for Business Development Services
-  Red Científica Peruana
-  Tanzania Country Gateway
-  Sri Lanka Country Gateway
-  Armenia Country Gateway
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