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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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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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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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Migration, entrepreneurship and development : a critical review

Naudé, Wim; Siegel, Melissa; Marchand, Katrin - 2015

We provide an assessment of the state of scholarly and policy debates on migrant entrepreneurs in development. They are … often described as super-entrepreneurs who contribute to development through (i) being more entrepreneurial than natives … general development contribution of migration over and above its contribution through entrepreneurship. The implication is …

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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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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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Labor market power and development

Armangué-Jubert, Tristany; Guner, Nezih; Ruggieri, … - 2023

countries. We structurally estimate a model of oligopsony with free entry for countries at different stages of development and … the top of the development ladder. …

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Economic mobility and fairness in a developing country : evidence from Peru

Castro, Juan Francisco; Yamada, Gustavo; Medina, Santiago; … - 2023

Periods of rapid economic growth in developing countries have been well studied in terms of poverty and income inequality reduction, but much less is known about the performance of these countries in terms of economic mobility. We study intragenerational mobility in Peru using an asset-based...

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"Romanticizing penniless entrepreneurs?" : the relationship between start-ups and human wellbeing across countries

Naudé, Wim; Amorós, José Ernesto; Cristi M., Oscar - 2013

We study the effect of entrepreneurship and its allocation between necessity and opportunity entrepreneurship on three indicators of countries' wellbeing: monetary wellbeing, non-monetary wellbeing and our own indicator of a country's ability to translate economic growth into non-monetary...

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Drivers of entrepreneurship and post-entry performance of newborn firms in developing countries

Quatraro, Francesco; Vivarelli, Marco - 2013

The aim of this paper is to provide an updated survey of the "state of the art" in entrepreneurial studies, with a particular focus on developing countries (DCs). In particular, the same concept of "entrepreneurship" will be critically discussed, then moving to the institutional, macroeconomic...

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