Nigeria's 2017 Diaspora Bond — A $300 Million, 130%-Oversubscribed Retail Instrument
Nigeria's June 2017 diaspora bond raised $300 million from Nigerians abroad at a 5.625% coupon, was oversubscribed by 130%, and was fully …
Nigeria's June 2017 diaspora bond raised $300 million from Nigerians abroad at a 5.625% coupon, was oversubscribed by 130%, and was fully …
Saudi Arabia's RHQ Programme offers multinationals 30-year tax breaks to base their regional headquarters in Riyadh, and since 2024 has restricted government …
Opened April 2025 under Tajikistan's digital-economy agency, IT Park Dushanbe gives resident IT firms 0% profit, VAT and dividend tax. Within a …
A stratified RCT with Addis Ababa businesswomen found formal business training raised profits and sales by 0.21 standard deviations and business practices …
Since 2015, ILO's SCORE Training has combined classroom instruction with in-factory coaching for Peruvian manufacturing SMEs, reporting output gains of up to …
Launched in March 2022, Kathmandu Metropolitan City partnered with UNDP Nepal and Impact Hub Kathmandu to run K-Hub, a 4-month municipal startup …
UNIDO and UNDP helped Cabo Verde's Fogo and Brava municipalities run a six-month youth incubation programme and launch a permanent regional innovation …
Apex-Brasil's PEIEX has qualified 30,000+ Brazilian SMEs for export in 20+ years; its 2021–23 cohort moved 827 of 5,334 firms into exporting, …
Since 2017, Slovakia's SARIO and SBA have helped 1,100+ SMEs with export and internationalization services, but an independent government evaluation found only …
In January 2021 Utrecht's council adopted the Ruimtelijke Strategie Utrecht 2040, committing roughly €7.1 billion to build four new urban centres so …
France's BSPCE scheme (1998 finance law) lets young unlisted firms grant staff the right to buy shares at a fixed price with …
Since 2012, Jersey's government-backed digital agency has grown the island's tech sector to over 3,000 jobs, 400+ digital firms and £158m in …
Thailand's Smart Visa (since 2018) gives skilled foreign professionals long stays without a work permit, feeding talent into the Eastern Economic Corridor, …
Since 1996, KI Innovations has reviewed 1,400+ research ideas from Karolinska Institutet, created 40 startups and signed 35 licence agreements; its DRIVE …
Max Planck Innovation, the Max Planck Society's technology-transfer arm, has generated over €576m in exploitation revenue and helped launch 200+ spin-offs since …
Since 2018, the University of the West Indies' venture arm and Trinidad's state-owned Unit Trust Corporation have run a tiered accelerator that …
Indonesia's Ministry of Communication and Informatics launched a nationwide startup pipeline in 2016, running Ignition-to-Incubation cohorts across 17 hubs in 34 provinces. …
Anguilla, a 15,000-resident Caribbean territory, turned its inherited '.ai' internet suffix into a fiscal engine: registrations jumped from 144,000 (2022) to 354,000 …
Established by Lagos State law in 2016, LSETF combines MSME loans, skills training and capacity building; by its 10th anniversary the fund …
Opened in 2022 as the network's 13th site, Orange Digital Center Guinée offers free coding, FabLab and startup-acceleration training in Conakry. Orange's …
Since 2017, South Korea's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport has funded small-scale neighbourhood renewal at hundreds of sites as an alternative …
Compete Caribbean and IDH helped Belize's shrimp growers earn ASC certification and reach UK retailers, adding an estimated 600 jobs (450 for …
Uruguay's tripartite state-industry-bank testing institute, LATU has run since 1965 and holds 300+ ISO/IEC 17025-accredited tests plus ISO 9001, product-certification and proficiency-testing …
Compete Caribbean's IDB-backed blue-economy grant (RG-T3560) matched US$250,000 in co-financing for Algas Organics, a Sargassum-seaweed bio-fertiliser firm in Dennery, Saint Lucia, helping …
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