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Entrepreneurship and violent conflict in developing countries
Brück, Tilman; Naudé, Wim; Verwimp, Philip - 2013
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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Measuring the business environment for entrepreneurship in fragile states
Guglielmetti, Chiara - 2010
This paper aims towards better understanding the role of entrepreneurship in fragile states, which despite the … formulation with appropriate and relevant measurement of entrepreneurship and the business environment, the primary focus in this … entrepreneurship in fragile state. -- entrepreneurship ; development ; fragile states ; institutions ; business ; environment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008660846
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Promoting women's economic empowerment through productive employment and social protection
Otobe, Naoko - 2014
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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Capitalism and African business cultures
Taylor, Scott D. - 2014
Scholars and practitioners once commonly linked 'African culture' to a distinctive 'African capitalism', at odds with genuine capitalism and the demands of modern business. Yet contemporary African business cultures reveal that a capitalist ethos has taken hold within both state and society. The...
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Return migration and entrepreneurship in Cameroon
Tamwo, Sévérin; Gandjon Fankem, Ghislain Stéphane; … - 2022
In this paper, we examine the determinants of the entrepreneurial behaviour of returnees to Cameroon based on original survey data from 2012. Contrary to the existing literature, we focus on the skills received from abroad without omitting the effect of savings. We distinguish between three...
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Finance, gender, and entrepreneurship : India's informal sector firms
Gang, Ira N.; Raj, Rajesh S. N.; Sen, Kunal - 2020
access in promoting entrepreneurship among informal sector firms in India. Our results are robust to alternative …
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Business rights and ethnic exclusion in sub-Saharan Africa : addressing group-based inequality through business rights reform
Taylor, Scott D. - 2016
The business rights pillar of the Legal Empowerment of the Poor agenda is not preoccupied with equality of outcome; it concentrates instead on equality of opportunity. This paper addresses the lacuna in the business rights literature by 'bringing outcomes back in'. Certainly, equal outcomes are...
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Key behavioural characteristics of small-business owners : a lab-in-the-field experiment in Myanmar
Rand, John; Castro Rodriguez, Paula; Tarp, Finn; … - 2019
This study investigates the role of owners' personal preferences and behaviour in determining the success of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises using a lab-in-the-field experiment with small-business owners in Myanmar. The study is a complement to a 2017 quantitative survey conducted...
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Breaking the metal ceiling : female entrepreneurs who succeed in male-dominated sectors
Campos, Francisco; Goldstein, Markus P.; McGorman, Laura; … - 2017
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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Supporting women entrepreneurs in Tunisia
Drine, Imed; Grach, Mouna - 2010
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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