A recent study by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation provides insight into what makes entrepreneurs tick. This study explores their socio-economic, educational and familial backgrounds and challenges many of the stereotypes many entrepreneurs currently face.
Read the full study here.
The 2009 World Trade Report – part of a series of reports published annually by the World Trade Organization – examines the range of contingency measures contained within trade agreements and the role that these measures play. As the economic situation is still fragile the forecasts for trade growth will be strongly negative this year, [...]
Employment, one of the main sources of concern during times of crisis, is the focus of the OECD’s new FAQ web service. According to the OECD’s latest projections, the OECD-area unemployment rate is projected to continue rising through 2010, approaching close to 10 percent. In order to keep people updated on employment trends, the OECD [...]
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has just published its biannual look at 14 emerging East Asia economies. Although economic growth is continuing to slow in 2009, emerging East Asia has already entered the transition from recession to recovery. The report’s special section is devoted to regulatory reform in the region.
Although ADB economists are optimistic that [...]
The UNCTAD’s World Investment Prospectus Survey 2009-2011 has just been launched and provides an outlook on future trends in foreign direct investment (FDI) by some of the largest transnational corporations (TNCs). The report focuses this year on the global economic and financial crisis and its impact on trans-nationals’ FDI plans. A sample of 240 company [...]
‘Renewable Energy Capacity in the EU’ is the focus of a new report published by Business Insights. The report documents the growth of this new market, showing its current status and projecting how it is likely to expand in the foreseeable future. It also provides statistical data on the different types of energy generation, which [...]
The ADB Economics Working Paper Series has just published its latest study, Ageing Asia’s Looming Pension Crisis. Old-age income support is fast becoming one of the biggest social and economic challenges facing developing Asia in the 21st century. The paper provides a wide overview of the current state of the pension system in eight countries [...]
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the UN has just launched its latest Crop Prospects and Food Situation Report, which warns about the effects that high food prices are having on millions of people in developing countries. Among the causes of the rising food prices, the report listed reduced harvest, higher or delayed imports, [...]
What was the big news in this year’s Global 500 list? For starters, Chinese industries, from aerospace to banking to oil, put up a strong showing. Others didn’t fare as well. Overall, corporate profits, ravaged by the recession, fell 48.3 percent.
When it comes to global competition, the U.S. isn’t always in pole position. In terms [...]
The latest edition of a research project into the growth of Spanish companies (Proyecto de Investigación: Análisis del Crecimiento de la Empresa Española, AC-E) has just been published. The first edition of the project was launched back in 2005 with the aim of carrying out an in-depth study of the factors at play in determining [...]
