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Measuring the business environment for entrepreneurship in fragile states
Guglielmetti, Chiara - 2010
This paper aims towards better understanding the role of entrepreneurship in fragile states, which despite the … formulation with appropriate and relevant measurement of entrepreneurship and the business environment, the primary focus in this … entrepreneurship in fragile state. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280212
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Overcoming the limits of institutional reform in Uganda
Andrews, Matt; Bategeka, Lawrence - 2013
This paper begins by noting that Uganda has been a public sector reform leader in Africa. It has pursued reforms …' in Africa (and beyond). The problem is that many of the reforms have been limited to these kinds of gains - producing new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333676
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Democratic capitalism and philanthropy in a global economy
Ács, Zoltán J.; Desai, Sameeksha - 2007
from the application of what has been a primarily American institution: Philanthropy. We present the Entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271772
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Total factor productivity and the role of entrepreneurship
Erken, Hugo; Donselaar, Piet; Thurik, A. Roy - 2008
models based on the established literature. Traditionally, entrepreneurship is not dealt with in these models. In the present … paper it is shown that - when this variable is added - in all models there is a significant influence of entrepreneurship … while the remaining effects mainly stay the same. Entrepreneurship is measured as the business ownership rate (number of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276826
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Self-employment and unemployment in Spanish regions in the period 1979-2001
Golpe, Antonio A.; van Stel, André J. - 2007
This paper investigates the relation between changes in self-employment and changes in unemployment at the regional level in Spain in the period 1979-2001. We estimate a vec-tor autoregression model as proposed by Audretsch, Carree, van Stel and Thurik (2005) using a data base for Spanish...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276972
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Eradicating women-hurting customs: What role for social engineering?
Platteau, Jean-Philippe; Camilotti, Guilia; Auriol, … - 2017
Social engineering refers to deliberate attempts, often under the form of legislative moves, to promote changes in customs and norms that hurt the interests of marginalized population groups. This paper explores the analytical conditions under which social engineering is more or less likely to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943748
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Who really leads development?
Andrews, Matt - 2013
Leadership' is not a common topic for research in international development. In recent years, however, prominent studies like the 2008 Growth Commission Report noted the importance of leadership in development. This and other studies focused on individual leaders - or heroes - when examining...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333666
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How do governments become great? Ten cases, two competing explanations, one large research agenda
Andrews, Matt - 2013
Governments can play great roles in their countries, regions, and cities; facilitating or leading the resolution of festering problems and opening new pathways for progress. Examples are more numerous than one might imagine and raise an important question: 'how do governments become great?'....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333710
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Historical origins of persistent inequality in Nigeria
Archibong, Belinda - 2016
Horizontal inequality by ethnic group has remained remarkably persistent for wealth, education, and access to certain services in Nigeria. While significant gains in the reduction of inequality and improvement in access have been made for more locally administered services, outcomes are stickier...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653973
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China's growth miracle in the context of Asian transformation
Lin, Justin Yifu - 2018
Myrdal did not cover China in his Asian Drama. If he did, he would have been most likely pessimistic about China, as he was about other Asian countries in his book. However, China has achieved miraculous growth since the transition from a planned economy to a market economy at the end of 1978....
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