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Despite the widespread popularity of entrepreneurship education, there is thin evidence on its effectiveness in … university students in Tunisia, this paper studies the medium-term impacts of entrepreneurship education four years after … entrepreneurship education were short-lived. There are no sustained impacts on self-employment or employment outcomes four years after …
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Is it the institutions or firm characteristics at birth that shape startups and their early growth in developing countries? Using comprehensive data from the Indian Annual Survey of Industries this paper addresses this question by studying the early lifecycle of firms across diverse...
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Using growth regressions with panel data, this study identifies the determinants of economic growth, highlighting in particular the role of natural resources and institutional quality. The overarching aim of this exercise is to learn about the drivers of growth in Nigeria, and to predict growth...
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Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest rate of entrepreneurship in the world, with approximately 42 percent of the non … particularly so for women. This new report, "Profiting from Parity: Unlocking the Potential of Women's Businesses in Africa …", produced by the World Bank Group's Africa Gender Innovation Lab and the Finance, Competitiveness and Innovation Global Practice …
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sectors of the economy, consequently leading to a reduction in the number of employment opportunities in Africa. Using geodata … that electricity shortages exert a substantial negative impact on employment rates in Africa. The evidence also shows three … shortages constrain the creation of new businesses through their negative effect on entrepreneurship. Second, in the intensive …
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Is there a mindset gap holding women back in business? Can entrepreneurship training instill a set of attitudes …
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This report is one of four analytical pieces on Ukraine's innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystem developed by the World Bank's Ukraine Technical Assistance on Innovation, supported by the Swedish Ukraine Financial and Enterprise Sector Recovery and Growth Trust Fund. This report assesses the...
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This paper reviews and critically evaluates existing evidence on female entrepreneurial activity. First, we identify how female-run businesses are different, by examining both economic and non-economic outcomes which are frequently overlooked. Second, we offer a comprehensive discussion of...
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international businesses, as well as the donor community, entrepreneurship is beginning to emerge as a crucial element in any …
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This paper analyzes data on female and male entrepreneurship that were collected by the World Bank Group …'s Entrepreneurship Database. Recognizing the importance of a differentiated approach to entrepreneurship in terms of legal entities, the …. Forty-four of the 143 economies that participated in the Entrepreneurship project provided some sex-disaggregated data for …
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