The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor suggests that rates of entrepreneurship are particularly low in the Middle East and north Africa.

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According to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (2009), in Russia 42% of CEOs are women whereas the average rate worldwide is only 24%.

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Babson College, along with London Business School, launched the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) in 1999 to help answer this very question.

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According to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), the level of early stage entrepreneurship activity in Turkey in 2010 was 8.6 percent.

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And according to an article that ran earlier on Forbes.com, for the first time in 13 years, the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) study of 59 economies shows that women are creating businesses at a greater rate than men in three economies, Ghana, Nigeria and Thailand, and are nearly equal in Brazil, Ecuador, Uganda and Switzerland.

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More than a quarter of workers 65 or older are planning to start a business in the next three years, according to the 2013 Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, an annual study conducted by researchers world-wide.

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