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The aim of this study is to provide a microeconomic investigation of the concept of entrepreneurship; in particular, it … discusses the following issues: 1) the alternative ways of looking at entrepreneurship, distinguishing "creative destruction … (of the new firm); and 4) the possible scope for an economic policy aimed at maximizing the impact of entrepreneurship on …
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Increasingly, entrepreneurship is being discussed and considered as a source of high economic growth and … prove quite useful to analyze the impact of countries' entrepreneurship capital on economic performance and can be a guide … entrepreneurship capital promotes economic performance by serving as a conduit of knowledge spillovers. In addition, kernel density …
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The authors examine the factors affecting the transition to self-employment in Bosnia and Herzegovina, using the World Bank Living Standard Measurement Survey panel household survey for the years 2001-2004. In the beginning of the sample, the country changed its legal framework, with the primary...
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Is the vast army of the self-employed in low income countries a source of employment generation? This paper uses 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. The authors use a rich set of...
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This paper compares two datasets designed to measure entrepreneurship. The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor dataset … captures early-stage entrepreneurial activity; the World Bank Group Entrepreneurship Survey dataset captures formal business … greater levels of early-stage entrepreneurship in developing economies than do the World Bank data. The World Bank data tend …
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This paper studies the relationship between the growth of China and India in world merchandise trade and Latin American and Caribbean commercial flows from two perspectives. First, the authors focus on the opportunity that China and India's markets have offered Latin American and Caribbean...
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The World Bank Group Entrepreneurship Survey measures entrepreneurial activity around the world. The database includes …
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productivity of non-farm entrepreneurship. Except for Ethiopia, women are less likely than men to become nonfarm entrepreneurs …. Women's nonfarm entrepreneurship isn't strongly correlated with household composition or educational attainment, but is …
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This paper models an entrepreneur's choice between investing in a safe activity or experimenting with a new risky one, and how much to invest in the "entrepreneurial capital” that would permit more effective use of the arriving information on the latter- how much to learn how to learn. Optimal...
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COVID-19 was a major shock to youth entrepreneurs and their businesses in Kenya. This paper studies the causal impact of grants - worth two months of baseline business revenue - and business development services as potential mitigation measures. Using multiple rounds of phone surveys up to seven...
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