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agriculture and focus on the literature on entrepreneurship in Africa's structural transformation. I present a conceptual model to … describe how entrepreneurship reallocates farmers out of agriculture into non-agricultural activities and locations. Recent …African agriculture's importance for sustainable development is well appreciated. Indeed, recent years have seen a …
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agriculture, implying that average productivity in agriculture increases as the agricultural employment share decreases. We … from four Sub-Saharan African countries. Around one third of households engage in both agriculture and non …-farming entrepreneurship. We find that more productive farming households are more likely to also engage in non-farm entrepreneurship, allocate …
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entrepreneurial activity in its weak institutional environment. -- entrepreneurship ; institutions ; networks ; Russia …In this paper we explore the ways in which institutions and networks influence entrepreneurial development in Russia …. By utilizing new Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) data collected in 2001, we investigate the effects of the weak …
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The transition economies have lower rates of entrepreneurship than are observed in most developed and developing market …. -- Entrepreneurship ; formal and informal sectors ; shadow economy ; institutional arrangements ; comparative studies of countries …
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entrepreneurship entry and exit intentions during the pandemic. To that end, we analyze primary survey data we collected in the … aftermath of the COVID-19's first wave in Russia, which has had one of the highest COVID-19 infection rates globally. Our … remote work also matter for entrepreneurial intentions. Our findings enhance the understanding of entrepreneurship formation …
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The productivity of non-farm enterprises in rural Africa may be associated with the productivity of other spatially proximate farm and non-farm enterprises. To test for the presence and significance of such spatial autocorrelation we use data from the geo-referenced 2011 Ethiopian Rural...
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-experiment" for understanding the sources of entrepreneurship. A relative demand-supply model and an individual sectoral choice model …
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Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of … de-industrialization (Brazil, Russia and South Africa). China is the only country where an expanding manufacturing sector …
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This paper considers the relationship between the economic concept of time preference and relevant concepts from psychology and biology. Using novel data from a time diary study conducted in Ireland that combined detailed psychometric testing with medical testing and real-time bio-tracking, we...
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Microcredit is an innovative financial tool designed to reduce poverty and fix credit market imperfections. We use experimental measures of time discounting and risk aversion for villagers in south India to highlight behavioral features of microcredit. Conditional on borrowing from any source,...
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