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Access to finance among small and medium-sized enterprises and job creation in Africa

Brixiova, Zuzana; Kangoye, Thierry; Yogo, Thierry - 2020

. This paper investigates how the access to finance affects employment in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Sub … growing the fastest. The impact of access to finance is stronger for firms in manufacturing than in services, pointing to … sectoral targeting of finance as a possible policy supporting industrialization. …

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Finance and growth at the firm level : evidence from SBA loans

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2015

We analyze linked databases on all Small Business Administration (SBA) loans, on all SBA lenders, and on all U.S. employers to estimate the effects of financial access on employment growth. Our methods combine regressions with matching on firm age, size, industry, year, and employment history,...

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Access to digital finance : equity crowdfunding across countries and platforms

Estrin, Saul; Khavul, Susanna; Kritikos, Alexander; … - 2023

Financing entrepreneurship spurs innovation and economic growth. Digital financial platforms that crowdfund equity for entrepreneurs have emerged globally, yet they remain poorly understood. We model equity crowdfunding in terms of the relationship between the number of investors and the amount...

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Access to justice and entrepreneurship : evidence from Brazil's special civil tribunals

Lichand, Guilherme; Soares, Rodrigo Reis - 2011

Entrepreneurship is usually identified as an important determinant of aggregate productivity and long-term growth. The determinants of entrepreneurship, nevertheless, are not entirely understood. A recent literature has linked entrepreneurship to the development of the justice system. This paper...

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Laws and norms

Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - 2012

This paper analyzes how private decisions and public policies are shaped by personal and societal preferences ("values"), material or other explicit incentives ("laws") and social sanctions or rewards ("norms"). It first examines how honor, stigma and social norms arise from individuals'...

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The role of constitutions on poverty : a cross-national investigation

Minkler, Lanse; Prakash, Nishith - 2015

In this paper we use novel historical data on economics and social rights from the constitutions of 201 countries and an instrument variable strategy to answer two important questions. First, do economic and social rights provisions in constitutions reduce poverty? Second, does the strength of...

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Ancestral norms, legal origins, and female empowerment

Brodeur, Abel; Mabeu, Marie Christelle; Pongou, Roland - 2020

A large literature documents persistent impacts of formal historical institutions. However, very little is known about how these institutions interact with ancestral traditions to determine long-term economic and social outcomes. This paper addresses this question by studying the persistent...

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Household access to microcredit and child work in rural Malawi

Hazarika, Gautam (contributor); Sarangi, Sudipta (contributor) - 2005

This paper examines the effect of household access to microcredit upon work by seven to eleven year old children in rural Malawi. Given that microcredit organizations foster household enterprises wherein much child labor is engaged, this paper aims to discover whether access to microcredit might...

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Are microloans bad for growth?

Emerson, Patrick M.; McGough, Bruce - 2010

microloan program designed to finance entrepreneurial activities is active. It is shown that, in the presence of human capital …

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Risk management among the poor : the case of microfinancial services

Arun, Thankom; Bendig, Mirko - 2010

This paper argues that the level of financial services provision determines the risk management strategies among the poor. The paper estimates the determinants of the household's use of one, two or all three types of microfinancial services applying ordered probit models and additionally probit...

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