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Entrepreneurship and Economic Development : Theory, Evidence and Policy
Naudé, Wim - 2013
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 … entrepreneurship and development; and (iii) fresh insights for entrepreneurship policy for development that emerges from recent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013077338
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Distribution of Natural Resources, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Development : Growth Dynamics with Two Elites
Falkinger, Josef; Grossmann, Volker - 2021
entrepreneurial elite, resulting in economic policy and institutions which are more conducive to entrepreneurship and productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318254
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Entrepreneurship Education and Teacher Training in Rwanda
Blimpo, Moussa - 2020
delivery of a major entrepreneurship curriculum reform in Rwanda. The reform introduced interactive pedagogy and a focus on … business skills in the country's required upper secondary entrepreneurship course. In addition to the government's standard … substitution between entrepreneurship and employment among students in treated schools …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012824424
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The Impact of Armed Conflict on Economic Performance : Evidence from Rwanda
Serneels, Pieter M. - 2012
Rwanda in the early 90s, and using micro data to carry out econometric analysis, this paper finds that households and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013103042
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Foreign Direct Investment and Domestic Entrepreneurship : Blessing or Curse?
Danakol, Seçil - 2013
between FDI and entrepreneurship; positive spillovers via dissemination of technology or negative because of crowding out. Our … entrepreneurship in aggregate and intra‐industry to be negative. Policies need to consider how to counteract this effect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071742
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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
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Globalization and Local Profiles of Economic Growth and Industrial Change
Dauth, Wolfgang - 2014
We analyze how globalization has affected the sectoral anatomy of regional growth in Germany over the period 1978-2008. The aggregate German economy is characterized by a secular decline of manufacturing and a rise of modern service industries. This trend– also known as Petty's law – is not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013054568
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Foreign Capital and Economic Growth
Prasad, Eswar S.; Rajan, Raghuram G.; Subramanian, Arvind - 2021
We document the recent phenomenon of uphill flows of capital from nonindustrial to industrial countries and analyze whether this pattern of capital flows has hurt growth in nonindustrial economies that export capital. Surprisingly, we find that there is a positive correlation between current...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316680
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Does Openness to International Financial Flows Contribute to Productivity Growth?
Kose, M. Ayhan; Prasad, Eswar S.; Terrones, Marco E. - 2021
Economic theory has identified a number of channels through which openness to international financial flows could raise productivity growth. However, while there is a vast empirical literature analyzing the impact of financial openness on output growth, far less attention has been paid to its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325040