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Angola's one-stop company registration shop cut formal start-up time from 124–184 days in the 2000s to under a day online by 2025, …
Built on the UNDP-funded Houwiyeti biometric digital-ID system piloted through 2023, Mauritania's Khidmaty platform (launched April 2025) lets investors — including diaspora …
Launched in 2018 by Sycomore Ventures and the UK aid-funded ELAN RDC programme, Ingenious City brought five competing Kinshasa incubators into one …
Compete Caribbean backed The Competitiveness Company's effort to organise ~170 small, mostly home-based ornamental-fish growers in Kingston, St Andrew, St Catherine and …
A €4.99M Horizon Europe programme coordinated by Eurocities pairs 12 Ukrainian 'Flagship Municipalities' with EU Climate-Neutral Mission Cities for structured climate-action mentorship, …
Qatar Foundation rebuilt Doha's historic Msheireb district as an all-LEED-certified, smart-monitored district where buildings use about 30% less energy and 70% less …
Since 2009, Saudi Arabia's KAUST has spun out close to 120 deep-tech companies via its Innovation Fund and Capital K vehicle; by …
Malaysia's standards institute adapted Germany's Fraunhofer applied-research model into a technology-audit scheme for manufacturing SMEs, later backed by a dedicated RM10 million …
A EUR 394,622 EU/Caribbean Development Bank grant is preparing 60 Surinamese MSMEs to export into Barbados, Guyana and Trinidad through branding, marketing …
Bishkek City Hall's Center for Digital Technologies built "My City," a mobile app bundling citizen requests, bus tracking, utility payments and permits; …
Since 2025 Jamaica's Chamber of Commerce and Kingston Restoration Company have run a corporate-sponsored clean-up campaign across eight downtown Kingston blocks. A …
Rockefeller Foundation's 100 Resilient Cities placed Chief Resilience Officers in 80+ cities from 2013–2019, then closed the programme after six years when …
Founded in 2013 inside the University of Nairobi's School of Computing and Informatics, C4DLab runs staged startup incubation and, from 2016, partnered …
France's French Tech Visa, running since 2017, has enabled over 1,200 companies to recruit foreign tech employees and issued roughly 1,150 employee …
Singapore's Overseas Networks & Expertise (ONE) Pass, for candidates earning at least S$30,000/month, saw nearly 4,200 applications approved in its first year …
Since 1994, UNDP's TOKTEN programme has placed 178+ diaspora Palestinian professionals as short-term volunteer experts inside ministries, hospitals, universities and the Gaza …
Researchers gave randomised cash or equipment grants to small Sri Lankan firms in the tsunami-hit south, then tracked profits. Average real return …
Hungary's largest public applied-research institute, founded in 1993, runs nine sites nationwide with about 160 researchers and staff, serves 200+ corporate clients, …
A 2010 RCT added a Kaizen module to SIYB training for 167 metalwork firms in Kumasi's Suame Magazine cluster: survival rose 8-9pp …
JICA's 2022 baseline survey of 80 Mongolian tech start-ups found they had created 1,318 jobs and an estimated MNT 452bn in value, …
A World Bank RCT split 852 Cape Town entrepreneurs into marketing-skills, finance-skills and control groups over a 10-week programme. Marketing training raised …
Cape Town co-funds a youth skills pipeline into its BPO sector (CapeBPO incubator, launched April 2025), which grew from ~45,400 to ~100,000 …
Timor-Leste's SERVE one-stop shop consolidated company registration into a single service, cutting the time to open a business from 94 days in …
Zambia merged five agencies into the ZDA in 2007 as a one-stop investment and export shop; in Q1 2026 it recorded $1.69bn …
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