We examine returns to entrepreneurship using a standard measure of welfare, the percapita consumption expenditure. The …

This paper discusses the difficulties associated with measuring entrepreneurship in developing countries. Three … important dichotomies in the research on entrepreneurship are discussed: formal-informal, legal-illegal, and necessity …-opportunity. Several common measures of entrepreneurship are outlined along with their relevance to developing countries, including self …

-driven entrepreneurship in the modern sector. The model shows how opportunity-driven entrepreneurship can drive structural transformation …

investigate early international entrepreneurship (international new ventures) in China. The extent of early international … entrepreneurship in China is significant: 65 per cent of the exporting firms start export operations within three years. Foreign …

household income inequality. This implies that encouraging rural entrepreneurship may be favourable for both income growth and …

We examine how institutional and policy reforms affect the relationship between entrepreneurship and growth. We perform … in particular on the interplay between policy and institutional reforms and entrepreneurship. We find that the joint … effect of trade reform and entrepreneurship on growth is negative, suggesting that trade reform diminishes the positive …

Improved governance and lower start-up costs may not be sufficient for encouraging the type of entrepreneurship that …) opportunitymotivated 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 leads to higher …