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..., activities and aspirations for the past 12 years. In 2010, their Global Entrepreneurship Monitor an...
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The trend towards private philanthropic foundations has seen some of the worlds most powerful past and present leaders lending business and political clout to public-private partnerships for international development. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is the worlds largest private philanthropic foundation. Since its inception in 2000, the foundation has pledged in excess of US$21 billion in grants to projects across the US and in more than 100 countries. Founded in 1998 by the Executive Chairman of the World Economic Foundation, Klaus Schwab, and his wife Hilde, the Schwab Foundation promotes social entrepreneurship as a catalyst for social innovation and progress. Established in 2003, the Clinton Foundation focuses on addressing global climate change, HIV/AIDS in the developing w...
... - through its Social Entrepreneur of the Year competition - and provides those 20 to 30 new cand...
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The European Community represents one of the primary destinations for Indian goods, accounting for one fifth of Indian exports. Indian goods have been at the receiving end of a significant majority of anti subsidy investigations initiated by the European Commission. Such goods have been alleged to be benefiting from subsidies inconsistent with Council Regulation 2026/97 which forms the legal basis for anti subsidy investigations initiated by the Commission. The paper puts forth an analysis of India's export incentive schemes including old schemes already subjected to challenge as well as new schemes vulnerable to challenge in future investigations with regard to the Council Regulation 2026/97 and the WTO Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures.
... reasonable time period not to exceed two years18. As discussed, the schemes have to adhere to the g... provides that developers of SEZ and entrepreneurs shall be exempt from certain exemptions, drawbacks...
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As international businesses explore the developing world to find new consumer markets, firms are realizing that long-term prosperity depends on the development of these markets. As a result, more partnerships are springing up between international companies, NGOs and development agencies. They are finding common interests and learning from each other in the process. For years the work of social entrepreneurs often passed unnoticed in the outside world. Now that is changing. Social entrepreneurs are set to have a profound impact on the world's most complex societal and environmental challenges. Their impact may be limited by their current scale, but could be limitless with the right business partners. Several developments indicate the rise of social entrepreneurship in public awareness. ...
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Packimpex Ltd has won the 'The Entrepreneur of the Year 2003' award installed by Ernst & Young...
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...Fribourg also boasts the 2005 Swiss entrepreneur of the year, Peter Heimlicher, who, as CEO of sens...
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There is nearly unanimous consent among WTO practitioners and scholars that the remedy of tariff compensation is legally superior, economically more efficient and socially more beneficial than retaliatory suspension of tariff concessions (tariff retaliation). This article argues in favour of a revitalization of tariff compensation. However, under the current regime compensation is a thoroughly unattractive policy instrument for decision makers having to temporarily opt out of a WTO Agreement in reaction to domestic shocks. Hence, tariff compensation is vastly underused. We examine reasons for the relative unattractiveness of this policy instrument and propose a substantial reform agenda of the WTO agreements and the dispute settlement system, so as to make compensation a policy tool of ...
... for the self-interested political entrepreneur. The relative "unattractiveness" of tariff compens...,31 as well as factual evidence of nearly 60 years of GATT- and WTO history tell us that policymakers...
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...The accidental entrepreneur . "I was never really into cars", says Peter Saube... business struggled to survive its first ten years. The entrepreneur was pushed to his limits, both p...
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...Ten years after a comprehensive programme of reforms, Swiss ... chairman Arditi, a Turkish-born entrepreneur and MBA graduate of Stanford University, who--with...
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... enterprise was first floated seven years ago by Paul Wolfrom, a customer and friend from Ph...