Emerging Economies | August 04, 2017 |
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Yay! I just completed my first month of curating this Emerging Economies Startup Digest. As I publish my digests for August, I would highly appreciate if you can share any feedback for me to improve the content and quality, don't hesitate to email me directly. This edition is also very curated set of articles from various emerging ecosystems around the world.
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| | By Conrad Egusa (@ConradEgusa), David Carter (@DaDaveyCarter) - TechCrunch In September 2012, Forbes published a lengthy feature heralding Brazil's arrival as "one of the most entrepreneurial countries in the world." At the time, the South American giant had been powering through a global recession, with growth rates that drew the envy even of its surging companions in the emerging-market bloc.
Roughly 25 percent of Brazil's workforce was self-employed in some capacity, and small businesses were accounting for two-thirds of private sector job creation in a rapidly diversifying economy that had already produced record reductions in poverty and unemployment. | | vanguardngr - IMF The International Monetary Fund, IMF, has projected that Nigeria's economy will grow at a faster pace than South Africa's in 2018. According to its World Economic Outlook, WEO, for July 2017, the IMF said Nigeria will grow at 1.9 per cent in 2018, while South Africa will only climb by 1.2 per cent. | | By Tom Jackson - Disrupt Africa The World Bank Group used the G20 leaders' summit to announce the creation of a new facility that will enable more than US$1 billion to advance female entrepreneurship and help women in developing countries gain increased access to the finance, markets and networks.
The Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative (We-Fi), the first World Bank-led facility to advance women's entrepreneurship at this scale, will provide financing to improve access to capital, provide technical assistance, and invest in other projects and programs that support women and women-led SMEs in World Bank Group client countries. | | By Daniel Mpala - Venture Burn The Standard Bank Incubator is working against the notion that women are not interested in careers in tech, says Jayashree Naidoo, head of the Standard Bank Incubator. Naidoo who will be speaking at a Startup Grind event in Pretoria this evening, quoted a survey released in January by Ignitor which revealed that although 66% of high school girls were interested in careers in tech, only four percent managed to establish careers in the field. Ventureburn asked her a few questions around women in entrepreneurship, innovation and other issues in South Africa's startup ecosystem. | | By Anurag Maloo - Self Techstars Startup Weekend is now 10 years old, and we're just getting started in the South & Central Asian region with 130+ India events since 2011, 50+ in South Asia (excluding India) & 20+ in Central Asia. We're also excited to announce that we will be bringing the first Startup Weekend events to Maldives and Uzbekistan in late 2017. To celebrate the impact of our entrepreneurship programs with our worldwide community and teams around the world and I'm honoured to share with you my favorite stories and memories of building startup communities. | | By Nathan Lustig (@nathanlustig) - TechCrunch Startups in Latin America are using creative solutions to address not just local but also global problems. For investors outside the region, the prospect of working with these startups can appear attractive, yet complicated. Investing in early-stage startups in Latin America can present challenges; however, despite the challenges, time and time again I've found it can be well worth the effort. | |
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