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Ghana's national youth-enterprise fund pairs tiered business training with matching grants. By late 2023 it had trained 36,000+ young entrepreneurs and disbursed …
Ethiopia's government-built Hawassa Industrial Park employed up to 28,000 workers (80%+ women) and generated $436m in cumulative apparel exports by 2024, but …
An AfDB-financed programme paired micro-lending through Seychelles' Small Business Finance Agency with entrepreneurship training via the Small Enterprise Promotion Agency, financing 716 …
Lviv ran six annual participatory-budget cycles from 2016; turnout grew from 21,215 to 145,573 voters (99%+ online) and the 2021 cycle funded …
Yangon's donor-funded innovation lab ran Myanmar's first equity-taking accelerator, investing US$25,000 per startup across three cohorts from 2016 to 2019. IRS filings …
Tatarstan built a greenfield city, university and tax-privileged zone to attract IT talent. A decade on, roughly 4,200-5,200 people live there against …
Georgia's fee-free digital-nomad registration drew 2,700+ remote workers in its first five months of 2020, but growth then plateaued and the scheme …
Cape Town's Open Data Portal, live since January 2015 and paired with free public-library access, publishes municipal datasets for reuse — but …
An RCT with 372 young female microentrepreneurs in Nairobi's Dandora slum found mentorship from a local successful entrepreneur raised profits 20% over …
A four-arm RCT with 1,301 Jakarta shop owners found a printed best-practice handbook alone had no effect, but two short in-shop coaching …
Established by decree in 2008, Egypt's ISDF graded unsafe informal areas by risk and by 2018 reported addressing 112 areas housing about …
Mozambique's flagship Maluana Science & Technology Park, on 950 hectares in Maputo province, grew from 3 resident companies in 2019 to 10 …
In 2016 Ghent commissioned Michel Bauwens and the P2P Foundation to map its grassroots 'commons' initiatives and recommend a shift from command-and-control …
Botswana's national self-help housing scheme, running since 1973, allocates serviced plots for owner-built homes. Two evaluations (2007, 2018) of Gaborone plots found …
Romania's National Recovery Plan offered SMEs grants of €20,000–100,000 for digital adoption; 7,188 firms applied in 2023 for a €350m fund, but …
Since 2010, Sri Lanka's UDA has relocated tens of thousands of families from Colombo's shanty settlements into high-rise housing; a $200M AIIB …
A Phnom Penh non-profit maps scattered land-concession, mining and hydropower data on one open platform. A GovLab case study links its dataset …
Since 2020, Greece has given relocating professionals a 50% income-tax exemption for 7 years (Article 5C); 2023–24 OECD data show 98,000 returned …
PARP's REACT-EU-funded 'Bony na cyfryzację' vouchers co-financed digital-transformation projects for 726 Polish SMEs (67 from a reserve list), averaging PLN 215,000 each, …
The University of Otago's wholly-owned commercialisation company. A 2009 report found it fell far short of royalty targets, but by 2021 it …
Croatia's Ministry of Economy ran three rounds of EU-funded Digitalisation Vouchers (2022-2024/25), disbursing EUR 10.6 million to 2,016 SMEs out of 3,912 …
HAMAG-BICRO, Croatia's state SME and innovation agency, awarded nearly EUR 3 million in grants (up to EUR 25,000 each) to 51 startups …
Incorporated in 2000 to commercialise University of Toronto and hospital research, MaRS grew into a large innovation hub — but its Phase …
Since 2019 Uganda's government has channelled over UGX 79bn into Makerere's Mak-RIF, funding 1,300+ research/innovation grants; by 2025 only about half had …
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