entrepreneurship, which might be responsible for different effects of start-up activity on regional development. Therefore, we examine … the growth implications rural entrepreneurship might have on the local economy. Our results suggest that new business … counties. The results also unveil that the often-cited inverse U-shaped relationship between entrepreneurship and GDP growth is …

economies depends critically on structural transformation and theemergence of productive entrepreneurship that would accelerate …) constraints and develops a theoreticalframework that examines the main obstacles to entrepreneurship in Africa’s LDCs. The … economies, development of productive entrepreneurship cannot be left tomarkets alone. The policy analysis suggests that the …

embeddedness of women entrepreneurs or the institutional environment for women's entrepreneurship. We contribute to the literature … context along a continuum of where entrepreneurship takes place and when this happens. Where context has been studied in … institutional contexts for women's entrepreneurship and their intersections, as informed by entrepreneurship, gender and geography …

promoting: i) micro-entrepreneurship in Brazil; and ii) the formalisation of entrepreneurs. Regarding the promotion of micro-entrepreneurship … have had a positive effect on the formalisation of individual entrepreneurs in terms of social security contributions, but …

credit constraints and informal financial assistance in explaining entrepreneurship. Previous research focuses exclusively on … that the programme, which assists 20 per cent of Brazilian households, has increased the number of small entrepreneurs by …