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survey data from 2012. Contrary to the existing literature, we focus on the skills received from abroad without omitting the …
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unemployment. We test the role of skills and training for productive youth entrepreneurship on data from a recent survey of … of youth start-ups. Our paper contributes to closing the gap in the entrepreneurship and development literature with a …
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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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Is the lack of "managerial capital", alongside human and financial capital, a constraint on the growth of firms in developing countries? The evidence on this is still mixed, especially among small and medium enterprises. This paper uses a panel of Vietnamese small and medium enterprises to...
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International migration analysis often focuses on mass migration rather than on the international mobility of elites, which is the focus of this paper. The paper offers a three-fold classification of elites: (a) knowledge elites, (b) entrepreneurial elites and (c) political elites. We explore...
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male and female perceptions of typical entrepreneurship support services, such as government provision of information … suggest that existing support services are inadequate for promoting female entrepreneurship. Accordingly we discuss support … measures specifically designed for women entrepreneurs. -- entrepreneurship ; gender ; women entrepreneurs ; Africa …
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data set, the National Risk and Vulnerability Assessment household survey 2005. Afghanistan is severely underdeveloped and … 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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entrepreneurship. These are the special issue of the Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship (2011) and the special issue of the … Journal of Conflict Resolution (2013), devoted to the impact of violent conflict on entrepreneurship in developing countries …. In the overview we start by defining entrepreneurship and conflict, and provide a succinct summary of the existing …
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The paper attempts to examine the extent to which the ILO-supported projects have contributed to women's economic empowerment and well-being i.e., from a gender perspective. The paper provides the ILO's perspectives on gender dimensions of employment promotion (involving income generation and...
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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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