entrepreneurship. In recent decades, efforts have increased to provide the world's poorest with financing and other assistance to … facilitate their entry into entrepreneurship or the growth of their small ventures. These are typically subsistence businesses …

relationship between entrepreneurship and economic growth. The data show strong evidence of a pro-cyclical pattern in … entrepreneurship. An examination of heterogeneous relationships between new firm registration and the business cycle finds that higher … entrepreneurship both across countries and within countries over time. The results are robust to various measures of business …

The aim of this study is to provide a microeconomic investigation of the concept of entrepreneurship; in particular, it … discusses the following issues: 1) the alternative ways of looking at entrepreneurship, distinguishing "creative destruction … (of the new firm); and 4) the possible scope for an economic policy aimed at maximizing the impact of entrepreneurship on …

This paper compares two datasets designed to measure entrepreneurship. The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor dataset … captures early-stage entrepreneurial activity; the World Bank Group Entrepreneurship Survey dataset captures formal business … greater levels of early-stage entrepreneurship in developing economies than do the World Bank data. The World Bank data tend …

operating a non-farm enterprise. Households are also pulled into entrepreneurship to exploit opportunities. Access to credit and …

shortages constrain the creation of new businesses through their negative effect on entrepreneurship. Second, in the intensive …

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 …