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Credit Constraints and ProductiveEntrepreneurship in Africa
Baliamoune-Lutz, Mina; Brixiova, Zuzana; Ndikumana, Leonce - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
entrepreneurship andprivate sector employment in Africa.... …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009486997
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Better Means More : Property Rights and High-Growth Aspiration Entrepreneurship
Estrin, Saul - 2009
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155593
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Credit Constraints and Productive Entrepreneurship in Africa
Baliamoune-Lutz, Mina - 2011
productive entrepreneurship and private sector employment in Africa …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117196
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Enterprising Women in Southern Africa : When Does Land Ownership Matter?
Brixiová, Zuzana - 2020
Limited access to finance is one of the major barriers for women entrepreneurs in Africa. This paper presents a model of start-ups in which firms' sales and profits depend on their productivity and access to credit. However, due to the lack of collateral assets such as land, female entrepreneurs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012842063
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Who are the Microenterprise Owners? Evidence from Sri Lanka on Tokman v. De Soto
de Mel, Suresh; McKenzie, David J.; Woodruff, Christopher M. - 2021
Is the vast army of the self-employed in low income countries a source of employment generation? We use data from surveys in Sri Lanka to compare the characteristics of own account workers (non-employers) with wage workers and with owners of larger firms. We use a rich set of measures of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325147
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Intrapreneurship or Entrepreneurship?
Parker, Simon C. - 2010
employer ('nascent intrapreneurship') or independently ('nascent entrepreneurship'). Analysis of a nationally representative … sample of American adults gathered in 2005-06 uncovers systematic differences between the drivers of nascent entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013152609
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Out of Sight, Out of Mind : Migration, Entrepreneurship and Social Capital
Wahba, Jackline - 2009
The aim of this paper is to investigate whether return migrants are more likely to become entrepreneurs than non-migrants. We develop a theoretical search model that puts forward the trade off faced by returnees since overseas migration provides an opportunity for human and physical capital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013154977
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Social Capital, Entrepreneurship and Living Standards : Differences between Immigrants and the Native Born
Roskruge, Matthew James - 2016
Both migrant entrepreneurship and social capital are topics which have attracted a great deal of attention. However … between social capital and the prevalence of entrepreneurship. We also investigate the relationship between social capital and … are correlated with entrepreneurship, but volunteering matters equally for both groups. The positive association between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012993950
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Migration, Entrepreneurship and Development : A Critical Review
Naudé, Wim - 2015
general development contribution of migration over and above its contribution through entrepreneurship.The implication is that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016209
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Innovative Firms or Innovative Owners? Determinants of Innovation in Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises
de Mel, Suresh - 2015
Innovation is key to technology adoption and creation, and to explaining the vast differences in productivity across and within countries. Despite the central role of the entrepreneur in the innovation process, data limitations have restricted standard analysis of the determinants of innovation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012749897