Chapter One: General Introduction -- Chapter Two: Institutional Antecedents of Entrepreneurship and its Consequences on Economic Growth: A Systematic Literature Analysis -- Chapter Three: Social Progress Orientation and Entrepreneurship -- Chapter Four: The Effect of Entrepreneurial Activity on...

The world economy is not what it used to be twenty years ago. For most of the 20th century, the world economy was characterized by developed (North) countries acting as 'center' to a 'periphery' of developing (South) countries. However, the recent rise of developing economies suggests the need...

This paper presents estimates of the relationship between the share of income accruing to the middle class and gross domestic product per capita of economies from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. The increase in gross domestic product per capita that these economies experienced during...

This paper assesses the impact of the rise of China on the trade of Latin American and Caribbean economies. The study proposes an index to measure the impact on trade, which suggests sizable effects, especially in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Hondu