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  Alliances towards a common goal: the role of public-private partnerships in rural development In Latin America

  Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2014

  In Latin America, public-private partnerships have proven to be a successful tool for promoting rural development. Adequate coordination and involvement of stakeholders at the local level has been fundamental in achieving positive results.
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  Supporting entrepreneurship at the base of the pyramid through business linkages

  International Business Leaders Forum, 2009

  Summary of a workshop held in Rio de Janeiro in June 2008 on big business support for entrepreneurs at the 'base of the pyramid' (BOP). Participants including key International corporate partners presented case studies of innovative and successful linkages and discussed the opportunities, challenges and success factors they have been able to identify.Of particular interest are:
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  Cutting edge: how community forest enterprises lead the way on poverty reduction and avoided deforestation

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2007

  Forests are not just crucial for keeping the global environment stable; they are also a lifeline for hundreds of millions of the world's poor. This paper presents community forest enterprise as a possible solution, which combines both avoided deforestation (the concept of richer nations paying poorer ones to halt planned logging) and poverty reduction.
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  The business of global poverty

  Harvard Business School, 2007

  This document discusses work from members of Harvard’s business school global poverty project (GPP). It specifically details the GPP’s claim that business could play a crucial role in reducing poverty in the twenty first century. 
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  Associations of small and medium forest enterprise: an initial review of issues for local livelihoods and sustainability

  Forestry and Land Use Programme, IIED, 2004

  This paper provides an introduction to recent literature on the benefits of small and medium enterprise (SME) associations and how to achieve them. An introduction is given to some of the language used by different disciplines that may have something to offer the forest sector.
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  Information and communication technologies (ICTs) and small enterprise: a handbook for entrepreneurs in developing countries

  Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 2001

  This handbook is for entrepreneurs running a small business in a developing country.
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  Information and communication technologies (ICTs) and small enterprise: a handbook for enterprise support agencies in developing countries

  Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 2001

  This handbook is for staff in agencies that support the development of small enterprise in developing countries.
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  Small and medium enterprises, growth, and poverty: cross-country evidence

  World Bank, 2004

  This paper explores the relationship between the relative size of the small and medium enterprise (SME) sector, economic growth, and poverty using a new database on the share of SME labour in the total manufacturing labour force.The authors use a sample of 76 countries to find:there is a strong association between the importance of SMEs and GDP per capita growththis relationship, ho
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  Current state of the art in impact assessment: with a special view on small enterprise development

  Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, 2004

  This guide, published by SDC, aims at providing some best practice guidelines for those undertaking impact assessment with particular reference to the field of small enterprise development (SED).The guide:runs through some of the general issues concerning impact assessmentoutlines the evolution of various common methods and approaches developed and discussed particularly for SED and
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  Small Enterprise Development and the 'Dutch Disease' in a Small Economy: The Case of Brunei

  Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 1998

  Following hydrocarbon (oil/gas) discoveries and price rises, a number of small developing economies which had been relatively poor found themselves to be relatively wealthy. However, the existence of significant quantities of minerals with strong export potential has generally been seen as a mixed blessing for national development.

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