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-known regularities in all of growth and development economics. Yet there is less than complete agreement on the nature of that …
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implications for economic development. Using National Accounts Statistics and cross-county data, we show that the growth of …
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This study is a first contribution to prioritization across productivity determinant capabilities that attempts to obtain the equivalent of a "shadow price" for each of these capabilities by estimating their impact on the success a country may have in reaching higher income per capita groups....
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Productive development policies (PDPs)-what used to be called industrial policies-are increasingly recognized as an … essential part of the development toolkit, and the need for public-private cooperation is increasingly viewed as a key element …
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A randomized controlled trial with 945 entrepreneurs in Jamaica shows positive short-term impacts of soft-skills training on business outcomes. The effects are concentrated among men and disappear 12 months after the training. The main channel is increased adoption of recommended business...
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The aim of this paper is to investigate the phenomenon of ethnic female entrepreneurship in urban economic life. The … not only for their own ethnic groups, but also for other groups in the city.Keywords: Ethnic female entrepreneurship …, diversity in entrepreneurship, ethnic female profile, Turkish female entrepreneurs …
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entrepreneurship empirically by means of investments made by active owners of closely held firms. Using detailed Swedish tax data, we …
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identifying program characteristics that can lead to more effective public policies promoting firm growth and entrepreneurship. We …, managerial skills development programs have positive returns on management practices, firm productivity, profits, and survival …
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