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Gender implications of biofuels expansion: A CGE analysis for Mozambique

Arndt, Channing; Benfica, Rui; Thurlow, James - 2010

We use a gendered computable general equilibrium model to assess the implications of biofuels expansion in Mozambique. We compare scenarios with different gender employment intensities in producing jatropha for biodiesel. Under all scenarios, biofuels accelerate GDP growth and reduce poverty....

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Colonial origin, ethnicity, and intergeneration mobility in Africa

Funjika, Patricia; Getachew, Yoseph Yilma - 2019

This paper estimates the relationship between differences in skills measured among within-country ethnic groups and individual human capital accumulation in eight African countries. Our results show that the skills of an individual in these countries depends more on the human capital levels of...

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Conflict and entrepreneurial activity in Afghanistan: Findings from the national risk vulnerability assessment data

Ciarli, Tommaso; Parto, Saeed; Savona, Maria - 2010

effect of the conflict on entrepreneurship is very small. The results on the control variables suggest that (i) the … generation of entrepreneurship has seen conflict and instability for a whole life,( ii) a small business is a mean of surviving …

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Discrimination, social capital, and financial constraints: The case of Viet Nam

Pham, Tho; Talavera, Oleksandr - 2017

This paper examines the relationship between gender, social capital, and access to finance of micro, small, and medium enterprises in the manufacturing sector in Viet Nam. Our dataset is from the 2011, 2013, and 2015 waves of the Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise Survey in Viet Nam. Using the...

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Breaking the metal ceiling: Female entrepreneurs who succeed in male-dominated sectors

Campos, Francisco; Goldstein, Markus; McGorman, Laura; … - 2017

outcomes for male and female enterprises and their sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa, a region of high female participation in … entrepreneurship. Data on Uganda show that women breaking into male-dominated sectors make as much as men, and three times more than …

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Finance, gender, and entrepreneurship: India's informal sector firms

Gang, Ira N.; Natarajan, Rajesh Raj; Sen, Kunal - 2020

access in promoting entrepreneurship among informal sector firms in India. Our results are robust to alternative …

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Entrepreneurship, stages of development, and industrialization

Ács, Zoltan J.; Naudé, Wim - 2011

Unlike in the past where industrial policy was either focused on creation and growth of state-owned firms or alternatively consisted merely of broadly functional policies without consideration for firm or entrepreneurial specifics, the requirement now is that future industrial policy ought to be...

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Entrepreneurial activity and civil war in Colombia: Exploring the mutual determinants between armed conflict and the private sector

Rettberg, Angelika; Leiteritz, Ralf; Nasi, Carlo - 2010

As elsewhere, the Colombian private sector has been accused of promoting or profiting from violence in the country. However, the private sector's role in the armed conflict and the impact of conflict on entrepreneurial activity vary, as reflected by differences in political activism, in...

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Entrepreneurship and human development: A capability approach

Gries, Thomas; Naudé, Wim - 2010

We provide a formal model of entrepreneurship in human development. The framework is provided by the capabilities … approach (CA). Hence we extend not only the conceptualisation of entrepreneurship in development, but the reach of the CA into … entrepreneurship. From a CA view, entrepreneurship is not only a production factor, or a means to an end, as is often taken to be the …

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