external capital and have greater growth opportunities. Also, higher accountability and lower income inequality are associated …

claim that entrepreneurship has important economic value. Hence, a systematic review is provided that answers the question …, and (iii) productivity and growth, relative to the contributions of the entrepreneurs’ counterparts, i.e., the ‘control … group’? A fourth type of contribution studied is the role of entrepreneurship in increasing individuals’ utility levels …

In recent years there has been a growing interest in the impact of inequality on economic growth. Both theoretical and … part of the literature that considers inequality detrimental to growth, more recent studies have challenged this result and … found a positive effect of inequality on growth. This paper contributes to the debate by using meta-analytical techniques to …

firm growth, survival, size and age. While these studies have resulted in findings that are sufficiently consistent as to … relationships between firm age and size on the one hand, and survival and growth on the other may, in fact, not be the same in … services. The results suggest that the most fundamental relationships between firm size, age, survival and growth are …

This paper puts forward a method to estimate average economic growth, and its associated confidence bounds, which does …

Growth in the Millennium</I>, 2005, Resources for the Future, Washington DC, 177-97.<P> …

There has been a revival of interest in the effect of risk on economic growth. We quantify both ex ante and ex post … remarkable long-running panel data set for rural households in Zimbabwe. We find that risk substantially reduces growth: in the …, the first micro-based estimate of the effect of shocks on growth. About two-thirds of the impact of risk is due to the ex …