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We examine returns to entrepreneurship using a standard measure of welfare, the percapita consumption expenditure. The …
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This paper discusses the difficulties associated with measuring entrepreneurship in developing countries. Three … important dichotomies in the research on entrepreneurship are discussed: formal-informal, legal-illegal, and necessity …-opportunity. Several common measures of entrepreneurship are outlined along with their relevance to developing countries, including self …
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We analyse potential dynamic benefits for a firm from having the option of adopting informal status. Informality may be a stepping stone, without which formality might never be achieved. This result obtains for a broad range of realistic parameter values, suggesting a potential dynamic case for...
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-driven entrepreneurship in the modern sector. The model shows how opportunity-driven entrepreneurship can drive structural transformation …
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investigate early international entrepreneurship (international new ventures) in China. The extent of early international … entrepreneurship in China is significant: 65 per cent of the exporting firms start export operations within three years. Foreign …
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household income inequality. This implies that encouraging rural entrepreneurship may be favourable for both income growth and …
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Where the theory of free competition reigns, developing countries should open their arms to investments from all types of enterprises in order to maximize jobs. Ownership, measured by votes of shareholders or boards of directors, is immaterial to performance. Matters change drastically, though,...
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We examine how institutional and policy reforms affect the relationship between entrepreneurship and growth. We perform … in particular on the interplay between policy and institutional reforms and entrepreneurship. We find that the joint … effect of trade reform and entrepreneurship on growth is negative, suggesting that trade reform diminishes the positive …
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Improved governance and lower start-up costs may not be sufficient for encouraging the type of entrepreneurship that …) opportunitymotivated entrepreneurship (as opposed to necessity-motivated entrepreneurship) drives economic growth; (ii) governance and the … start-up costs are not significant determinants of opportunity entrepreneurship; and (iii) better governance leads to higher …
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Start-ups of new firms are important for economic growth. However, start-up rates differ significantly between countries and within regions of the same country. A large empirical literature studies the reasons for this and attempts to identify the regional determinants of start-ups. In contrast,...
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