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Creating a conducive policy environment for employment creation in small enterprises in Viet Nam
Phạm, Thị Thu Hang - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 2002
Examines the economic significance of micro and small enterprises (MSEs) in Viet Nam and assesses the policy and legal environment for MSEs in seven key areas: specific MSE policies; business laws and regulations; taxation; labour policy; trade; finance, credit and bankruptcy polices; and...
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Strategies for local economic development within the framework of sustainable human development : inputs to capacity building.
D, Nielsen Short; R, Lindenthal; AL, Vidal Alonso - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1996
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010966369
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Creating a conducive policy environment for employment creation in SMMEs in South Africa
Mollentz, Jennifer - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 2002
Examines the role of small, medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs) in employment and the economy in South Africa and assesses the impact of the policy and legislative environment on these enterprises. Focuses on the number and quality of jobs being created in the sector.
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The Role of Development Entrepreneurship and Small and Medium Entrerprises in Managing Structural Changes
Beraha, Isidora; Stankovic, Ivana - In: Managing Structural Changes - Trends and Requirements
economic growth and development. Entrepreneurship is associated with job creation, innovation, welfare distribution, poverty … of entrepreneurship and its contribution to economic development of Serbia over the 2006-2010 period of time by using the … data. The methodology assesses the development of entrepreneurship through SMEE sector development and new firm formation …
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UNDERLYING LOGICS THAT TRANSFORM SURVIVAL OR SUBSISTENT ENTREPRENEURSHIP CLUSTERS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
HE, XIAOHONG; CHI, RENYONG - In: Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship (JDE) 18 (2013) 03, pp. 1350018-1
survival entrepreneurial clusters can evolve into innovative industrial networks. By conceptualizing survival entrepreneurship …
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The Effect of Regional Entrepreneurship Culture on Economic Development - Evidence for Germany
Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
We use the historical self-employment rate as an indicator of a regional culture of entrepreneurship and link this … measure to economic growth in recent periods. The results indicate that German regions with a high level of entrepreneurship … a regional culture of entrepreneurship is an important resource for regional growth. …
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Entrepreneurship and economic development: the relative attraction of employment centres by firm size
Craig, Steven G.; Kohlhase, Janet E.; Perdue, Adam - In: International Journal of Global Environmental Issues 13 (2014) 2/3/4, pp. 281-293
Our research empirically explores the relative importance of firm size in fostering economic growth by using cross-sectional variation in the relative location of large and small firms in urban centres of employment. Our method compares the relative location of large and small firms between the...
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Innovation economics and the role of the innovative entrepreneur in economic theory
Courvisanos, Jerry; Mackenzie, Stuart - In: Journal of Innovation Economics n°14 (2014) 2, pp. 41-61
Innovation economics is poorly defined due to a plethora of meanings to innovation, and each having a distinctive diverse connection to economic analysis. This crucial aspect of economic development is only weakly integrated into the main body of economics. An excursion through the history of...
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INFLUENCE OF THE EUROPEAN ENLARGEMENT PROCESS ON ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN POLAND
PICHUR, AGNIESZKA; WACH, KRZYSZTOF - In: JOURNAL STUDIA UNIVERSITATIS BABES-BOLYAI NEGOTIA (2007)
as foreign trade is concerned. The paper elaborates on entrepreneurship including internationalizing of exchange sphere …
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A County-Level Assessment of Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth in Appalachia Using Simultaneous Equations
Mojica, Maribel; Gebremedhin, Tesfa; Schaeffer, Peter - Regional Research Institute (RRI), West Virginia University - 2009
This study provides evidence of the contribution of entrepreneurship to economic development in Appalachia. Using data … entrepreneurship on economic growth and development. We present an expanded Carlino-Mills growth model using changes in population … entrepreneurship’s contributions to economic growth, and its potential as a development strategy for a region, such as Appalachia, that …
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