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Political scientists have generally seen two key features of African political economies - a relatively small or absent middle class, and a middle class that is unusually embedded in the state - as key explanations of the troubled political and economic trajectories of many African societies....
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Economics on entrepreneurship in Latin America as a vehicle for upward social mobility, especially for the middle class. The … special survey show that entrepreneurship increases mobility across generations. Although persistence coefficients do not …
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This article studies global distributions of capital and labor income among individuals in 2000 and 2016. By constructing a novel database covering approximately the 80% of the global output and the 60% of the world population, two major findings stand out. First, the world underwent a...
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In the Economic Viewpoints section we welcome extended reviews of important works on economics and political economy. Deirdre McCloskey's The Bourgeois Virtues is one of the most ambitious and important works published in classical liberal political economy for at least half a century
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their origin countries than non-migrants. This has led to the belief that return migration stimulates entrepreneurship in … Kyrgyzstan Study, a rich longitudinal data set from a transition economy with high levels of international temporary migration … findings cast doubt on the common narrative of return migration stimulating entrepreneurship and therefore economic development. …
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aspiring entrepreneurs in Kyrgyzstan, Georgia, and the United States. We administered the Aspiring Entrepreneurial Motive … countries. Financial motives were significantly higher in Kyrgyzstan and Georgia than in the United States. Recognition motives … were significantly higher in Kyrgyzstan. Compared to Kyrgyzstan and Georgia, freedom and perceived marketing opportunities …
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Entrepreneurship is an important element of national economic growth, and college business students represent an … of students’ desire to be entrepreneurs in Kyrgyzstan, Georgia, and the United States. Three hundred and five … undergraduate business students in Kyrgyzstan, Georgia, and the United States completed the Entrepreneurial Motives Questionnaire …
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