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In this paper, we empirically investigate the effect of entrepreneurship on economic growth at the country level. We … effects of entrepreneurship in general and growth-oriented entrepreneurship in particular. We present empirical tests of the … suggest that entrepreneurship does not have an effect on economic growth in low income countries, in contrast to transition …
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productivity as of 1959 of about 350 (320). As a complement to the growth model we estimate the Kouri model using time …We derive the central differential equation of the neoclassical growth model for the case of a CES (constant elasticity …-run deviations from this long-run path, which are characterized by non-sustainable explosive debt growth. These phases are …
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This paper examines productivity, export-intensity, skills-intensity and technological differences between foreign and … significant technology index, human resource, process technology and R&D capabilities than local firms. However, the remaining t …-tests produced mixed results. Nonetheless, foreign firms enjoyed stronger statistical relationships between the technology index, and …
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productivity, the coefficient of technology index was higher in the foreign firms' sample than in the local firms' sample. Local … significant Kenyan results suggest that foreign firms' technology, productivity and export-intensity levels in economies with weak …This paper uses firm level survey data to examine productivity, and export, skills and technological intensities …
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Unlike in the past where industrial policy was either focused on creation and growth of state-owned firms or …
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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...
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Although very dynamic and flexible, Turkish SMEs are less innovative than their European counterparts. The analysis undertaken in this paper allows to assess whether this low level of innovative activities is related to a lack of entrepreneurial behaviour and/or to the weaknesses of the Turkish...
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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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, 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. …
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This paper provides an overview of the state of the art of the intersection of development and entrepreneurship. Given … the neglect of entrepreneurship by development scholars it deals with (i) recent theoretical insights from the … intersection of entrepreneurship and development studies; (ii) the empirical evidence on that relationship between entrepreneurship …
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