access in promoting entrepreneurship among informal sector firms in India. Our results are robust to alternative … what directions? We take advantage of nationwide data collected in 2010/11 and 2015/16 by India's National Sample Survey …

We develop a framework for quantifying barriers to labor force participation (LFP) and entrepreneurship faced by women … in India. We find substantial barriers to LFP, and higher costs of expanding businesses through the hiring of workers for …, policies promoting female entrepreneurship can significantly increase female LFP even without explicitly targeting female LFP …

We are the first to provide a comparative empirical analysis of non-farm entrepreneurship in rural Africa, using the … variables show consistency across the sample, we also find much heterogeneity, suggesting that rural entrepreneurship is also a … identified as a priority for African countries, rural entrepreneurship continues to fulfill mainly a risk-diversifying role. This …

understanding of rural non-farm entrepreneurship, particularly with regard to the role of young adults in this sector. This paper …

transformation, will stagnate. One such endogenous driver is entrepreneurship. In this paper I start with the reappraisal of African … 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 …

-farming entrepreneurship. We find that more productive farming households are more likely to also engage in non-farm entrepreneurship, allocate …

Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of …