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We are the first to provide a comparative empirical analysis of non-farm entrepreneurship in rural Africa, using the …-farm enterprise depends on individual capabilities, household characteristics and institutional factors. While the results of some … variables show consistency across the sample, we also find much heterogeneity, suggesting that rural entrepreneurship is also a …
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operating a non-farm enterprise. Households are also pulled into entrepreneurship to exploit opportunities. Access to credit and … operating an enterprise. The characteristics are also associated with the type of business activity a household operates. Rural … and female-headed enterprises and enterprises with young enterprise owners are less productive than urban and male …
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operating a non-farm enterprise. Households are also pulled into entrepreneurship to exploit opportunities. Access to credit and … operating an enterprise. The characteristics are also associated with the type of business activity a household operates. Rural … and female-headed enterprises and enterprises with young enterprise owners are less productive than urban and male …
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productive. In Nigeria, we find evidence for spatial autocorrelation at the individual enterprise level but not at the community …
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general development contribution of migration over and above its contribution through entrepreneurship. The implication is …
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entrepreneurship. Given the relative neglect of entrepreneurship by development scholars it deals with (i) recent theoretical insights … from the intersection of entrepreneurship and development studies; (ii) the empirical evidence on the relationship between … entrepreneurship and development; and (iii) fresh insights for entrepreneurship policy for development that emerges from recent …
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We extend Lazear's theory of skills variety and entrepreneurship in three directions. First, we provide a theoretical …, but also commercial value. Our findings support the notion that entrepreneurship can be learned. …
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We study the effect of entrepreneurship and its allocation between necessity and opportunity entrepreneurship on three … and non-monetary wellbeing to entrepreneurial allocation. Using data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor we establish … that opportunity entrepreneurship may contribute towards national wellbeing and that better wellbeing in turn may stimulate …
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We are the first to provide a comparative empirical analysis of non-farm entrepreneurship in rural Africa, using the …-farm enterprise depends on individual capabilities, household characteristics and institutional factors. While the results of some … variables show consistency across the sample, we also find much heterogeneity, suggesting that rural entrepreneurship is also a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010252632