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Engineers, Innovative Capacity and Development in the Americas
Maloney, William F. - 2017
This paper offers the first evidence on the prevalence of a central actor in modern growth theory?the engineer. Using newly collected sub-national, and international data as well as historical case studies, it then argues that differences in innovative capacity, captured by the density of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973384
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Crossovers : Female Entrepreneurs Who Enter Male Sectors -- Evidence from Ethiopia
Alibhai, Salman - 2017
Occupational sector selection is an important determinant of returns for female entrepreneurs. If sectors that are traditionally male owned could provide an opportunity to earn higher returns, then what factors could encourage women to cross over into these sectors or prevent them from doing so?...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012956217
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Women's Entrepreneurship : How to Measure the Gap between New Female and Male Entrepreneurs?
Meunier, Frédéric - 2017
This paper analyzes data on female and male entrepreneurship that were collected by the World Bank Group …'s Entrepreneurship Database. Recognizing the importance of a differentiated approach to entrepreneurship in terms of legal entities, the …. Forty-four of the 143 economies that participated in the Entrepreneurship project provided some sex-disaggregated data for …
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Political Reservations and Women's Entrepreneurship in India
Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2017
heightened entrepreneurship is due to channels like greater finance access or heightened inspiration for women entrepreneurs …
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The effect of inequality of opportunity on entrepreneurship : evidence from China
Zhou, Guangsu; Liu, Lizhong - In: The world economy : the leading journal on … 47 (2024) 6, pp. 2264-2286
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The growth of agricultural protection in Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries
Swinnen, Johan F. M. - In: The world economy : the leading journal on … 32 (2009) 11, pp. 1499-1537
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003920233
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Domestic distortions and the early emergence of the international trade in fire insurance from the UK
Westall, Oliver M. - In: The world economy : the leading journal on … 29 (2006) 11, pp. 1629-1641
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The rise of US anti-dumping activity in historical perspective
Irwin, Douglas A. - In: The world economy : the leading journal on … 28 (2005) 5, pp. 651-668
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Factions, Local Accountability, and Long-Term Development : County-Level Evidence from a Chinese Province
Fang, Hanming - 2019
This paper investigates, both theoretically and empirically, the role of factional competition and local accountability in explaining the enormous but puzzling county-level variations in development performance in Fujian province of China. When the Communist armies took over Fujian from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012871367
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How and Why Does History Matter for Development Policy?
Woolcock, Michael - 2017
conclusion that "history matters," since institutions clearly form and evolve over time. Unfortunately, however, the next logical … useful and distinctive insights to offer. This paper endeavors to open and sustain a constructive dialogue between history …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976368