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Playing in Invisible Markets: Innovations in the Market for Toilets to Harness the Economic Power of the Poor
Ramani, Shyama V. - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2008
Sanitation is at the heart of not only environmental security but also food security and health. Today about 41% of the global population or about 2.6 billion people do not have access to toilets and about 42,000 people die every week due to drinking water polluted with faecal matter. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005150782
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New firm creation and failure: A matching approach
Gries, Thomas; Jungblut, Stefan; Naudé, Wim - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2012
, as in labor market matching models. Deriving a novel Entrepreneurship-Beveridge curve, we show that a successful start … possible applications of this matching approach to formalize the economics of entrepreneurship. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009653060
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"Surfeiting, the appetite may sicken": Entrepreneurship and the happiness of nations
Naudé, Wim; Amoros, José Ernesto; Cristi, Oscar - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2012
entrepreneurs to start-up new businesses? In this paper we survey the literature on entrepreneurship and happiness, and use various … data sources, including from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, to find tentative evidence of an inverse U …-shape relationship between (opportunity) entrepreneurship and national happiness. We find little evidence that a nation's happiness …
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Bridging the Financing Gap for Pro-Poor Innovation: Towards a Framework
Sonne, Lina - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2010
In many developing countries, pro-poor entrepreneurship and innovation is facing a financing gap. Such innovation …
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Types of Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth
Stam, Erik; Stel, Andre van - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2009
In this paper, we empirically investigate the effect of entrepreneurship on economic growth at the country level. We … use data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, which provides comparative data on entrepreneurship from a wide range … effects of entrepreneurship in general and growth-oriented entrepreneurship in particular. We present empirical tests of the …
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Firm Ownership, FOEs, and POEs
Amsden, Alice - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2009
Where the theory of free competition reigns, developing countries should open their arms to investments from all types of enterprises in order to maximize jobs. Ownership, measured by votes of shareholders or boards of directors, is immaterial to performance. Matters change drastically, though,...
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