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Can Microfinance Unlock a Poverty Trap for Some Entrepreneurs?
Banerjee, Abhijit - 2019
, India, we find that "gung ho entrepreneurs" (GEs), households who were already running a business before microfinance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480290
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The emergence of entrepreneurial behaviour : intention, education and orientation
Santos, Susana C. (contributor);  … - 2017
. Connecting the literature dots: a literature review on prototypes in entrepreneurship research / Sílvia Fernandes Costa, António … Belchior and Francisco Liñan -- Part II: Entrepreneurial education -- 5. Promoting entrepreneurship in an unfavourable setting … mentorship in experiential entrepreneurship education: examining conditions for entrepreneurial learning among students / Gustav …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419919
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Peace entrepreneurs and social entrepreneurship : life stories from Israelis and Palestinians
Oliver, Amalya Lumerman; Zilber, Tammar B.; Magadlah, Haneen - 2021
Contents: Introduction: Peace entrepreneurship, life narratives, and the Israeli-palestinian conflict / Amalya Oliver …. I am me because arik was arik / Yitzhak Frankenthal -- 12. Discussion: Peace entrepreneurship - insights and reflections …, defining 'peace entrepreneurship' and mapping its unique characteristics. It also explains the narrative methodology used, and …
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Aspirations and Financial Decisions : Experimental Evidence from the Philippines
McKenzie, David J.; Mohpal, Aakash; Yang, Dean - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
A randomized experiment among poor entrepreneurs tested the impact of exogenously inducing higher financial aspirations. In theory, raising aspirations could have positive effects by inducing higher effort, but could also reduce effort if unmet aspirations lead to frustration. Treatment resulted...
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Necessity entrepreneurs : microenterprise education and economic development
Brewer, Jeremi (contributor); Gibson, Stephen W. (contributor) - 2014
'This groundbreaking exploration of the concept of necessity entrepreneurship cuts to the heart of the culture wars … entrepreneurship, microenterprise education and long-term economic development. An estimated one billion individuals in both developed … respective nations. This volume is the foundation upon which the budding discipline of necessity entrepreneurship can be built …
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The Persistent Power of Behavioral Change : Long-Run Impacts of Temporary Savings Subsidies for the Poor
Schaner, Simone - 2016
-run impacts on experimental bank account use and almost entirely driven by growth in entrepreneurship. Temporary interest rates … directed to joint bank accounts had no detectable long-run impacts on entrepreneurship or income, but increased investment in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456145
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Hoping to Win, Expected to Lose : Theory and Lessons on Micro Enterprise Development
Karlan, Dean - 2012
Many basic economic theories with perfectly functioning markets do not predict the existence of the vast number of microenterprises readily observed across the world. We put forward a model that illuminates why financial and managerial capital constraints may impede experimentation, and thus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460338
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Give Me a Pass : Flexible Credit for Entrepreneurs in Colombia
Brune, Lasse; Giné, Xavier; Karlan, Dean - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Microcredit promised business growth for small firms lacking access to banking loans. Yet while reaching millions, recent randomized evaluations suggest limited average business impacts. Critics often blame contract rigidity, specifically the fixed and frequent installments, for the lack of...
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Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Innovation in the U.S. High-Tech Sector
Brown, J. David - 2019
We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries … characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly higher rates of innovation in immigrant-owned firms for 15 of 16 … different innovation measures; the only exception is for copyright/trademark. The immigrant advantage holds for older firms as …
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Entrepreneurship, innovation and regional development
Smallbone, David (contributor); Virtanen, Markku (contributor) - 2016
Entrepreneurship and innovation are arguably the main drivers of economic development today. This book explores the two …1. Introduction / David Smallbone, Markku Virtanen and Arnis Sauka -- Part I innovation -- 2. Innovation processes in … development -- 4. Entrepreneurship and industrial policy in Ireland / Colm O'Gorman and Declan Curran -- 5. Towards Europe: the …
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