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Clemens, Michael A. - 2014

development until countries reach upper-middle income, and only thereafter falls. This note quantifies the shape of the mobility …

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The capability threshold : re-examining the definition of the middle class in an unequal developing country

Burger, Ronelle; McAravey, Camren; Berg, Servaas van der - 2015

In a polarised and highly unequal country such as South Africa, it is unlikely that a definition of the middle class that is based on an income threshold will adequately capture the political and social meanings of being middle class. We therefore propose a multi-dimensional definition, rooted...

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Entrepreneurship and economic development : theory, evidence and policy

Naudé, Wim - 2013

This paper provides an overview of the state of the art of the intersection of development economics and … entrepreneurship. Given the relative 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 the relationship between …

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Public-private entanglement : entrepreneurship in a hybrid political order, the case of Lebanon

Stel, Nora; Naudé, Wim - 2013

The instability and informality that characterize hybrid political orders and its effects on entrepreneurs remains largely unexplored in the scholarly literatures. In this paper we provide initial findings from the case of entrepreneurs' access to electricity in Lebanon. Using quantitative and...

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The decision to become an entrepreneur and the firm size distribution : a unifying framework for policy analysis

Poschke, Markus - 2013

Developing and emerging economies have high entrepreneurship rates and relatively many small firms. There is enormous heterogeneity among these firms and entrepreneurs. This paper presents a simple occupational choice model that captures motives for entrepreneurship at both edges of the size...

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Business in genocide : understanding and avoiding complicity

Stel, Nora; Naudé, Wim - 2016

Genocides and mass atrocities do not arise spontaneously, but tend to be meticulously sourced and managed. As such the concern in this paper is with the role of businesses in these processes, with a particular focus on the agency and decision making of entrepreneurs and managers. We critically...

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Is European entrepreneurship in crisis?

Naudé, Wim - 2016

The European Commission has adopted an Entrepreneurship 2020 Action Plan as its answer to challenges brought by the gravest economic crisis in the last 50 years. Governments of European countries all habour high expectations that entrepreneurship will contribute towards ending the continent's...

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Global earnings inequality, 1970-2015

Hammar, Olle; Waldenström, Daniel - 2017

We estimate trends in global earnings dispersion across occupational groups using a new database covering 66 developed and developing countries between 1970 and 2015. Our main finding is that global earnings inequality has declined, primarily during the 2000s, when the global Gini coefficient...

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The intersection of the fields of entrepreneurship and development economics : a review towards a new view

Hessels, Jolanda; Naudé, Wim - 2017

Policy makers find it difficult to promote economic development through entrepreneurship and SMEs. In this paper we … development. The scholarly fields that have been interested in this, entrepreneurship economics and development economics, have … associated with entrepreneurship in development, and by proposing a new synthesis definition of entrepreneurship. …

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The decline in entrepreneurship in the West : is complexity ossifying the economy?

Naudé, Wim - 2019

Entrepreneurship in most advanced economies is in decline. This comes as a surprise: many scholars have expected an upsurge in entrepreneurship. What are the reasons for the decline? In this paper I first document the extent of the decline in terms of entrepreneurial entry rates; the share of...

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