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Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries

Naudé, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Goedhuys, Micheline - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2011

these questions and explains the relationship between entrepreneurship, innovation and development. Policy lessons are drawn …

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Entrepreneurship, Stages of Development, and Industrialization

Acs, Zoltan J.; Wim Naudï¿½ - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2011

Unlike in the past where industrial policy was either focused on creation and growth of state-owned firms or alternatively consisted merely of broadly functional policies without consideration for firm or entrepreneurial specifics, the requirement now is that future industrial policy ought to be...

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Supporting Women Entrepreneurs in Tunisia

Drine, Imed; Grach, Mouna - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010

male and female perceptions of typical entrepreneurship support services, such as government provision of information … suggest that existing support services are inadequate for promoting female entrepreneurship. Accordingly we discuss support …

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Adapting to Climate Change An Integrated Biophysical and Economic Assessment for Mozambique

Arndt, Channing; Strzepeck, Kenneth; Tarp, Finn; … - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010

more flexible and resilient society. Our findings also support the need for cooperative river basin management and the …

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Firm Exit and Armed Conflict in Colombia

Camacho, Andriana; Rodriguez, Catherine - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010

This paper uses two unique panel data sets to study the causal effect that armed conflict has over entrepreneurial activity in Colombia. Using a fixed effect estimation methodology at the plant level and controlling for the possible endogeneity of armed conflict through the use of instrumental...

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Scholars and practitioners once commonly linked .African culture. to a distinctive .African capitalism., at odds with genuine capitalism and the demands of modern business. Yet con...

Taylor, Scott D. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014

Scholars and practitioners once commonly linked .African culture. to a distinctive .African capitalism., at odds with genuine capitalism and the demands of modern business. Yet contemporary African business cultures reveal that a capitalist ethos has take

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The Role of Training in Fostering Cluster-Based Micro and Small Enterprises Development

Sonobe, Tetsushi; Otsuka, Keijiro - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2012

While it has been increasingly recognized that efficient management holds the key to the development of micro and small …

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Promoting women.s economic empowerment through productive employment and social protection

Otobe, Naoko - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014

The paper attempts to examine the extent to which the ILO-supported projects have contributed to women.s economic empowerment and well-being i.e., from a gender perspective. The paper provides the ILO.s perspectives on gender dimensions of employment prom

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Entrepreneurship and violent conflict in developing countries

Bruck, Tilman; Naude, Wim; Verwimp, Philip - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2013

entrepreneurship. These are the special issue of the Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship (2011) and the special issue of the …

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Out with the sleaze, in with the ease: Insufficient for entrepreneurial development?

Naude, Wim - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2009

Improved governance and lower start-up costs may not be sufficient for encouraging the type of entrepreneurship that …) opportunity-motivated entrepreneurship (as opposed to necessity-motivated entrepreneurship) drives economic growth; (ii …) governance and the start-up costs are not significant determinants of opportunity entrepreneurship; and (iii) better governance …

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