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-employment, Global Entrepreneurship Monitor data, World Bank Group Entrepreneurship Survey data and OECD data. The implications of the …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 …
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We examine returns to entrepreneurship using a standard measure of welfare, the percapita consumption expenditure. The …
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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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We use data on 3,948 Chinese firms obtained from the World Bank's Investment Climate Private Enterprise Survey to … 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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Improved governance and lower start-up costs may not be sufficient for encouraging the type of entrepreneurship that … matters for economic growth. Using panel data on 60 countries spanning the period 2003-07 this paper establishes that (i …) opportunitymotivated entrepreneurship (as opposed to necessity-motivated entrepreneurship) drives economic growth; (ii) governance and the …
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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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The success of new start-up firms often depends on timing. It is valuable for the potential entrepreneur to wait for the right moment before starting a new firm. In this paper we provide a theoretical model to determine the optimal time for starting a new firm. We integrate insights from the...
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This paper discusses the characteristics and determinants of entrepreneurial behaviour in Uganda. It is based on a recent survey of urban and rural entrepreneurs, executed in May 2008. The main dependent variables are business success, gestation activities and innovative performance. The paper...
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