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This paper investigates how public policies regarding MSMEs in Peru enable a favourable environment for businesses in mining regions. Furthermore, it considers how MSME policies in Peru support social entrepreneurship (S…

A scan of the literature on social entrepreneurship in Peru presents a paradox: higher-than-average levels of entrepreneurship and yet a comparatively underdeveloped social entrepreneurship and impact investing ecosystem…

On September 14, 2019, the APEC-Canada Growing Business Partnership hosted a one-day training introduced relevant best practices for entrepreneurs and MSMEs through presentations by Canadian and Peruvian trainers on busi…

From November 8th to November 11th, 2017, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau paid a historic visit to Vietnam where he and Vietnamese Prime Minister, Nguyen Xuan Phuc, announced a comprehensive economic partnership. After 44 …

Modern agriculture has evolved from farmers operating simple mechanized tractors to using high-tech drone imagery of fields or digital farm information systems navigated by a mobile app. Drones and agriculture-smart mobi…

This report investigates how institutional environments influence the usefulness of individuals’ human capital for entrepreneurial activity, that is, new business creation. Based on the logic of institutional theory, var…

In this study, we examine the role that gender plays in Indonesian micro and small enterprise (MSE) dynamics. The MSE business scene in Indonesia is characterized by a high degree of informality, often involving unpaid f…

On May 15, 2019, the APEC-Canada Growing Business Partnership hosted a one-day research and policy workshop in Lima, Peru which brought together Canadian and Peruvian researchers, policy-makers, and local entrepreneurs t…

As part of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada’s APEC-Canada Growing Business Partnership team, University of British Columbia international relations and political science students Avneet Darred, Sandra Lin, and Chanp…

The digital economy has afforded Indonesia’s MSMEs unprecedented opportunities for inclusive growth within local, regional, and even global value chains. E-commerce, social media, the sharing economy, and cloud-based ana…