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Creating a conducive policy environment for employment creation in small enterprises in Viet Nam

Phạm, Thị Thu Hang - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 2002

Examines the economic significance of micro and small enterprises (MSEs) in Viet Nam and assesses the policy and legal environment for MSEs in seven key areas: specific MSE policies; business laws and regulations; taxation; labour policy; trade; finance, credit and bankruptcy polices; and...

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Strategies for local economic development within the framework of sustainable human development : inputs to capacity building.

D, Nielsen Short; R, Lindenthal; AL, Vidal Alonso - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1996

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Creating a conducive policy environment for employment creation in SMMEs in South Africa

Mollentz, Jennifer - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 2002

Examines the role of small, medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs) in employment and the economy in South Africa and assesses the impact of the policy and legislative environment on these enterprises. Focuses on the number and quality of jobs being created in the sector.

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The Role of Development Entrepreneurship and Small and Medium Entrerprises in Managing Structural Changes

Beraha, Isidora; Stankovic, Ivana - In: Managing Structural Changes - Trends and Requirements

economic growth and development. Entrepreneurship is associated with job creation, innovation, welfare distribution, poverty … of entrepreneurship and its contribution to economic development of Serbia over the 2006-2010 period of time by using the … data. The methodology assesses the development of entrepreneurship through SMEE sector development and new firm formation …

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Entrepreneur et croissance économique : développements récents

Facchini, François - In: Revue d'économie industrielle n° 119 (2007) 3, pp. 3-3

The objet of this article is to present the important literature that developed on the border of economic sciences and management around the role of the entrepreneur in the economic growth, and to discuss its main conclusions. The message of these works is simple: without entrepreneur, no or...

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Innovation economics and the role of the innovative entrepreneur in economic theory

Courvisanos, Jerry; Mackenzie, Stuart - In: Journal of Innovation Economics n°14 (2014) 2, pp. 41-61

Innovation economics is poorly defined due to a plethora of meanings to innovation, and each having a distinctive diverse connection to economic analysis. This crucial aspect of economic development is only weakly integrated into the main body of economics. An excursion through the history of...

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A County-Level Assessment of Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth in Appalachia Using Simultaneous Equations

Mojica, Maribel; Gebremedhin, Tesfa; Schaeffer, Peter - Regional Research Institute (RRI), West Virginia University - 2009

This study provides evidence of the contribution of entrepreneurship to economic development in Appalachia. Using data … entrepreneurship on economic growth and development. We present an expanded Carlino-Mills growth model using changes in population … entrepreneurship’s contributions to economic growth, and its potential as a development strategy for a region, such as Appalachia, that …

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Is More Entrepreneurship better?

Koellinger, Philipp; Roessler, Christian - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009

We develop a new perspective on the boundary of the firm that is consistent with the empirical observation that the share of entrepreneurs first decreases and then increases in the course of economic development. Existing theory based on transaction costs is difficult to relate to these...

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The Relation between Economic Development and Business Ownership revisited

Carree, Martin; Stel, André van; Thurik, Roy; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007

This paper revisits the two-equation model of Carree, van Stel, Thurik and Wennekers (2002) where deviations from the ‘equilibrium’ rate of business ownership play a central role determining both the growth of business ownership and that of economic development. Two extensions of the...

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The Contribution of Village Palm Grove to the Cameroonian Rural Economic Development

Pelagie, Pene Zongabiro Nina - In: Research in World Economy 5 (2014) 2, pp. 159-168

villagers in Cameroon deal with entrepreneurship activities in agricultural business, especially in the business of palm oil …. The article aims at introducing the palm grove activity branch as an elevator of entrepreneurship in rural areas; it …

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