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entrepreneurship. …
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transformation, will stagnate. One such endogenous driver is entrepreneurship. In this paper I start with the reappraisal of African … agriculture and focus on the literature on entrepreneurship in Africa's structural transformation. I present a conceptual model to … describe how entrepreneurship reallocates farmers out of agriculture into non-agricultural activities and locations. Recent …
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Support for entrepreneurship is widely seen as a mechanism to facilitate prosperity and peace in a growing number of … post-conflict states. In this paper I critically evaluate this view. I argue that entrepreneurship is a ubiquitous quality … in post-conflict states but not necessarily always for the good. Unproductive and destructive entrepreneurship may …
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. By utilizing new Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) data collected in 2001, we investigate the effects of the weak …
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This study analyses the relationship between entrepreneurial dynamics and the level of competitiveness in Latin American countries. Based on a stage of economic development model we demonstrate that Latin American countries under the model followed different paths related to competitiveness....
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Improved governance and lower start-up costs may not be sufficient for encouraging the type of entrepreneurship that …) opportunitymotivated entrepreneurship (as opposed to necessity-motivated entrepreneurship) drives economic growth; (ii) governance and the … start-up costs are not significant determinants of opportunity entrepreneurship; and (iii) better governance leads to higher …
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The European Commission has adopted an Entrepreneurship 2020 Action Plan as its answer to challenges brought by the … entrepreneurship will contribute towards ending the continent's economic malaise. In this article I argue that these expectations may … be disappointed because (i) entrepreneurship promotion is a last-resort policy, (ii) entrepreneurs are being …
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Entrepreneurship, as re ected in the start-up of new firms, the growth and market exit of existing firms, and the ow of … is a strong possibility that the unintended damage to entrepreneurship, innovation and growth could be persistent. This …
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Entrepreneurship, as reflected in the start-up of new firms, the growth and market exit of existing firms, and the ow … that there is a strong possibility that the unintended damage to entrepreneurship, innovation and growth could be …
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entrepreneurship can cause and resolve extreme events, the immediate and long-run impacts of extreme events on entrepreneurship, and … whether extreme events can positively impact (some) entrepreneurship and innovation. Based on this, we propose a partial … equilibrium model to provide several conjectures on the impact of COVID-19 on entrepreneurship and derive policy recommendations …
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