Posts Tagged ‘OECD’

Entrepreneurship in Brazil

Thursday, June 24th, 2010

Entrepreneurship is becoming more popular in Brazil, despite the relative difficulty of starting a business there and the complexity of the country’s tax system.

Read more about the conditions driving Brazil’s entrepreneurship boom at the Policy Dialogue on Entrepreneurship Blog.

And not only that, Brazil has the World Cup in 2014 and the Olympics in 2016.

Measuring Entrepreneurship

Monday, November 30th, 2009

Earth_Lights_from_SpaceThe Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has recently published the 2009 edition of its international study, “Measuring Entrepreneurship.” According to the OECD website, this study is an attempt to better understand “the drivers of entrepreneurship” and “the links between entrepreneurship and its potential impacts.” The study explores such issues as the birth and death rates of enterprises, the number of innovative products created by small and large firms, and how easily entrepreneurs can access start up capital.

Read the report at OECD’s homepage.