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The Entrepreneurship Database Program at Emory University leverages relationships with a growing number of accelerator programs to collect systematic data from entrepreneurs who apply to and participate in accelerator programs. This report summarizes application data collected from entrepreneurs who participated in the programs during 2013, 2014, 2015 and early 2016. It covers aspects like e.g. venture performance indicators, country of operations, sectors and impact objectives, gender or profit margin aspirations.

The report compares acceleration in emerging markets versus high-income countries. Examining data from more than 2,400 early stage ventures that applied to 43 programs, it finds more similarities between emerging market and high-income country entrepreneurs and accelerator programs than commonly believed. It also tests commonly held beliefs about what might be holding entrepreneurs back in emerging markets and finds that many of these beliefs are not backed up by data.

This paper is part of a series of papers on inclusive agribusiness written for the “Towards a Global Research and Learning Agenda for Inclusive Agribusiness” workshop in March 2017. This issue outlines the research questions around the gap between the financial needs of smallholders and the supply of financial services. It identifies the areas where action is needed and gives an overview of the ongoing projects and actors that promote the smallholder finance agenda.

This case study provides an overview of the business environment constraints to women’s financial inclusion. Furthermore, it highlights from a limited sample, examples of gender-sensitive business environment reform interventions that have addressed the direct and indirect business environment constraints to women’s financial inclusion and details their approaches, success factors and lessons learned.

This report discusses how neo-liberal policies and current economic models constrain women's economic empowerment. It provides recommendations for a 'human economy' which benefits women and men alike.

The report provides a detailed outlook of the risks and opportunities artificial intelligence (AI) poses for low and middle-income countries, as well as the key elements that can be leveraged upon to maximise the benefits and minimise the risks generated by AI.

Ensuring that WASH services recover costs while remaining affordable for low-income households, and reaching the city’s most vulnerable residents, is a constant balancing act. This publication illustrates that this is possible. Therefore, it explores the financial viability of six urban WASH service delivery models.

Taking the UN's new Global Goals for Sustainable Development as the basis for an action plan, this report by the Business and Development Commission makes a point for pursuing the SDGs in partnership with government and civil society. It makes the business case for the SDGs and identifies six actions that business leaders can take to contribute to reach them.

This executive summary highlights main findings from the flagship report "Better business , better world" by the Business and Sustainable Development Commission. The report reveals 60 sustainable and inclusive market "hot spots" in four key economic areas that could create at least USD 12 trillion, worth over 10% of today's GDP.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - This report sets out achievable pathways to limit global warming to well below 2˚C while stimulating economic development and social progress. Therefore, the world population must reduce carbon emissions by half by 2040 (compared to a business as usual scenario). Simultaneously, the world population must ensure economic development and access to affordable, sustainable and reliable energy for all. This is achievable, but business, government and investors must act now to accelerate clean electrification, decarbonization beyond power and energy productivity improvement.