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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 …
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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 …
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understanding of rural non-farm entrepreneurship, particularly with regard to the role of young adults in this sector. This paper …
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Although non-farm enterprises are ubiquitous in rural Sub-Saharan Africa, little is yet known about their productivity. In this paper we contribute to filling this gap by providing estimates of labor productivity in enterprises for Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, and Uganda. Using the World Bank's...
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Although non-farm enterprises are ubiquitous in rural Sub-Saharan Africa, little is yet known about their productivity. In this paper we contribute to filling this gap by providing estimates of labor productivity in enterprises for Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, and Uganda. Using the World Bank's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959758
understanding of rural non-farm entrepreneurship, particularly with regard to the role of young adults in this sector. This paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959849
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010788944
. By utilizing new Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) data collected in 2001, we investigate the effects of the weak …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267935
When unemployed persons go into business, they often are characterized as necessity entrepreneurs, because push factors, namely their unemployment, likely prompted their decision. In contrast to this, business founders who have been previously employed represent opportunity entrepreneurs because...
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, entrepreneurship-related attitudes, and general personality traits of both business starters and non-starters. Estimating binary choice …
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