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Business Literacy and Development: Evidence From a Randomized Controlled Trial in Rural Mexico

Calderón, Gabriela; Cunha, Jesse M.; Giorgi, Giacomo De - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2013

A large share of the poor in developing countries run small enterprises, often earning low incomes. This paper explores whether the poor performance of businesses can be explained by a lack of basic business skills. We randomized the offer of a free, 48-hour business skills course to female...

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Entrepreneurship, stages of development, and industrialization

Ács, Zoltan J.; Naudé, Wim - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2012

Unlike in the past where industrial policy was either focused on creation and growth of state-owned firms or alternatively consisted merely of broadly functional policies without consideration for firm or entrepreneurial specifics, the requirement now is that future industrial policy ought to be...

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"Romanticizing Penniless Entrepreneurs?" The Relationship between Start-Ups and Human Wellbeing across Countries

Naudé, Wim; Amorós, José Ernesto; Cristi, Oscar - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

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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Entrepreneurship and Economic Development: Theory, Evidence and Policy

Naudé, Wim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

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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Drivers of Entrepreneurship and Post-Entry Performance of Newborn Firms in Developing Countries

Quatraro, Francesco; Vivarelli, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

particular focus on developing countries (DCs). In particular, the same concept of "entrepreneurship" will be critically …

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Public-Private Entanglement: Entrepreneurship in a Hybrid Political Order, the Case of Lebanon

Stel, Nora; Naudé, Wim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

imposes a 'tax' on entrepreneurship by channelling entrepreneurial talent into lobbying and bribery; by reinforcing male and …

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The Decision to Become an Entrepreneur and the Firm Size Distribution: A Unifying Framework for Policy Analysis

Poschke, Markus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Developing and emerging economies have high entrepreneurship rates and relatively many small firms. There is enormous … entrepreneurship at both edges of the size distribution. The model is then used to analyse the effects of productivity growth …, distortions, financial and labor market frictions, and risk. Capturing entrepreneurship across the size distribution allows for …

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Business under Fire: Entrepreneurship and Violent Conflict in Developing Countries

Brück, Tilman T.; Naudé, Wim W.; Verwimp, Philip - Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, … - 2013

impact of violent conflict on entrepreneurship in developing countries. First we note that there is insufficient attention in … the literature on the impact of violent conflict on the firm or entrepreneur level. Then, after we define entrepreneurship …

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Entrepreneurship in Advanced and Developing Countries: A Microeconomic Perspective

Vivarelli, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

The purpose of this paper is to provide a contribution to the identification of the role of entrepreneurship in … economic growth by mapping out: 1) alternative ways of looking at entrepreneurship, distinguishing 'creative destruction' from … firm); and 4) the possible scope for an economic policy aimed at maximizing the impact of entrepreneurship on economic …

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Innovation and Growth: Role of the Financial Sector

Mohan, Rakesh - eSocialSciences - 2008

ensuring price and financial stability. [Bharti Annual Lecture at the Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India …

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