The transition economies have lower rates of entrepreneurship than are observed in most developed and developing market …

This paper contrasts the determinants of entrepreneurial entry and high-growth aspiration entrepreneurship. Using the … Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) surveys for 42 countries over the period 1998-2005, we analyse how institutional … entrepreneurship, but has less pronounced effects for entrepreneurial entry. The availability of finance and the fiscal burden matter …

-2005 individual-level Global Entrepreneurship Monitor data merged with macro level variables. A simple correlation coefficient …

-level institutional indicators for 47 countries with working age population survey data taken from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor …

We develop entrepreneurship and institutional theory to explain variation in different types of entrepreneurship across … grow faster. We test these hypotheses using the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor surveys in 55 countries for 2001 …

both high aspiration and low aspiration entrepreneurship. We also find that women benefit more from the larger informal …

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 …

entrepreneurship, and contrast this with the post-World War II period. This latter period, although it contained the German economic … to weaknesses, and (iv) entrepreneurship is stagnating. Implications for policy are noted. Our paper contributes to the …

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