We examine how institutional and policy reforms affect the relationship between entrepreneurship and growth. We perform … effect of trade reform and entrepreneurship on growth is negative, suggesting that trade reform diminishes the positive … effects of entrepreneurial ability on growth, while the joint effect of financial sector reform and entrepreneurship has a non …

This paper examines different explanations.initial conditions, openness to trade and FDI, and institutions.of the … Mauritian growth experience since the mid-1970s. We show that arguments based on openness to trade and FDI are either misleading …

social capital and institutions enhance aid effectiveness. Moreover, once we account for the role of social capital and … institutions, the impact of policies tend to disappear. These findings have important policy implications as they indicate that …

institutions in terms of performance and policy as opposed to that flowing to larger countries, where evidence suggests that the …