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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. …

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Entrepreneurship and SME Management Across Africa : Context, Challenges, Cases

Achtenhagen, Leona (ed.); Brundin, Ethel (ed.) - 2016

personnel and environmental concerns. Entrepreneurship and SME Management Across Africa: Context, Challenges, Cases will be … -- Section IV: Commentary -- Chapter 13: Entrepreneurship and SME Management Across Africa: A perspective and a short review …This book focuses on issues related to entrepreneurship and SME management on the African continent by providing …

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Every drop counts: Assessing aid for water and sanitation

Anand, P.B. - 2013

Water and sanitation sectors have been the 'natural' subjects of aid for several decades. However, these sectors also were among those most affected by changes in aid approaches and tools. The aim of this paper is to capture some of the complexity in assessing impact and effectiveness of aid in...

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Long Term Economic Development : Demand, Finance, Organization, Policy and Innovation in a Schumpeterian Perspective

Pyka, Andreas - 2013

Introduction -- Schumpeter's Core Works Revisited -- Back to Engel?- Technological Regimes and Demand Structure in the Evolution of the Pharmaceutical Industry -- Innovation and Demand in Industry Dynamics -- Production and Financial Linkages in Inter-Firm Networks -- Does History Matter?-...

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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...

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Rethinking the world of aid in the twenty first century

Heller, Peter S. - 2011

Many concerns can be raised about the effectiveness of current aid programmes to developing countries. The appropriateness of aid is particularly questionable when one considers the likely character of the challenges that the global economy will confront in 2025, as suggested by alternative...

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Security of property rights for whom?

Lawson-Remer, Terra - 2011

Recent research regarding property rights and economic development often treats property rights security in a country as homogeneous, although protecting the private entitlements of some can entail preventing others from claiming and controlling those same resources. This one-dimensional...