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Tirana partnered with the EBRD (2015–2018) on a Green City Action Plan and adopted a 2016 masterplan pledging a 2-million-tree 'Orbital Forest' …
Namibia's October 2022 digital-nomad visa made it one of only five African countries offering one. By mid-2023 it had logged 121 enquiries …
Since 2018, Latvia has run a network of regional remigration coordinators helping citizens abroad move home, assisting 2,456 returnees in 2021-2023 — …
Uzbekistan's state-run tax-free tech zone grew from a startup hub to 2,846 resident IT/BPO companies and about 38,600 jobs by 2024–25, becoming …
A free, renewable long-stay visa for remote workers, retirees and investors launched in November 2020; officials reported roughly 2,000 approvals from 85+ …
In 2013 Oslo's parties agreed a five-year Tøyen area initiative, funded equally by the city and five ministries. Reports note a better …
Baghdad's first co-working and incubation space opened in 2018 with 35 desks, backed by the Dutch Embassy, GIZ and local business groups. …
Indonesia began building a new capital, Nusantara, in East Kalimantan in 2022 as a ~$45bn carbon-neutral 'smart city' relocation from congested, sinking …
Cuba's August 2021 decree legalising private micro, small and medium enterprises grew to over 11,000 registered mipymes by early 2024, employing ~297,000 …
Since 2020, Dutch government-funded Techleap.nl has run 'Rise', an eight-week cohort programme for scale-ups. A rare independent 2023 government evaluation found the …
BantuLab, launched in 2026 by entrepreneur Vérone Mankou's BantuHub Foundation with corporate backer L'Archer Group, commits roughly €1M to fund two Brazzaville …
A randomised trial with 219 small rug-weaving firms in Fowa, Egypt found that guaranteeing export orders raised monthly profits by 26% and …
Kerala's NORKA Roots is India's oldest state migrant-welfare agency, but a 2022 peer-reviewed survey of 1,985 returnees found 84–92% were unaware of …
Opened in 2001 near Tehran, Pardis Technology Park now hosts over 370 resident high-tech firms and 6,000 specialists, per the International Association …
Opened inside Baku's E-Government Development Center in December 2018, INNOLAND is Azerbaijan's state-backed incubation and acceleration hub; in 2019 it reported supporting …
Malaysia's MRANTI runs a National Technology & Innovation Sandbox across 15 sites. As of Jan 2025: 124 projects funded, 70 technologies commercialised, …
In 2026 Andorra Business quadrupled its innovation-grant budget to EUR 2M, split between local R&D and attracting foreign firms, after a smaller …
In 2020 Liechtenstein enacted the world's first comprehensive token-economy framework law (TVTG). By November 2025 just 29 firms were registered under it, …
Vanuatu's Economic Citizenship Programme once supplied 14% of GDP in government revenue (2020) but due-diligence failures triggered a full EU visa-waiver suspension …
Kuwait's National Fund for SME Development, capitalised at KD 2 billion in 2013, financed only about 1,040 projects at 2% interest in …
Guatemala's Guatecompras portal has made e-procurement mandatory nationwide since 2004, but an independent World Bank audit found actual online disclosure averaged only …
A four-day Lao-Korean workshop paired Luang Prabang's mostly informal entrepreneur base (2,788 new micro-SMEs in 3 years, only 250 registered locally) with …
Botswana merged its export and investment agencies into BITC in 2012 to diversify beyond diamonds; in FY2020/21 it facilitated P1.38bn in FDI …
Benin's government is building a 336-hectare 'city of knowledge' in Ouidah combining a university campus, research park and youth programmes, targeting 100,000 …
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