Conference Report: Private Sector Development and Peacebuilding BMZ, DiFD, GTZ and International Alert organized an international conference on ‘Private Sector Development and Peacebuilding – Exploring Local and International Perspectives’ in Berlin on the 14/15 September 2006. During these two days some 140 experts in the fields of private sector development (PSD) and peacebuilding, representing various … Read more
Building BDS Markets That Actually Work: Supply-Side Lessons from the Field Before you can develop a Business Development Services market, you need to honestly assess what’s holding it back — and often, the problem starts on the supply side. Weak BDS markets don’t fail by accident. Macro-economic constraints quietly block market growth, and subsidised monopoly … Read more
Why Small Businesses Fail to Invest in Their People — and What BDS Can Do About It In a knowledge-based economy, the competitive edge no longer belongs to those with the most machines or the lowest prices. It belongs to those with the best people. Yet for many small and medium enterprises, investing in staff … Read more
Few examples in European business development illustrate the potential of public-private collaboration as cleanly as Hamburg’s Initiative for Business Start-ups (Hamburger Existenzgründungs-Initiative, HEI). Launched as a deliberate experiment in market-friendly intervention, it has — over more than a decade — grown into one of the city’s most enduring tools for connecting entrepreneurs with the support … Read more
