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Measuring risk preferences in rural Ethiopia : risk tolerance and exogenous income proxies
Vieider, Ferdinand M.; Beyene, Abebe; Bluffstone, … - 2014
extensive methodological discussions on measuring and estimating risk preferences in development settings. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010411251
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Educational content, educational institutions and economic development : lessons from history
Cantoni, Davide; Yuchtman, Noam - 2012
institutional development. In late 19th-century China, elites were afraid of the introduction of Western science and engineering and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009490201
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Structural transformation in Africa : new technologies, resurgent entrepreneurship and the revival of manufacturing
Naudé, Wim - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011975259
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Entrepreneurship and economic growth : the experience of developed and developing countries
Sergi, Bruno S.; Popkova, Elena G.; Bogoviz, Aleksei … - In: Entrepreneurship and development in the 21st century, (pp. 3-32). 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161940
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Entrepreneurship and economic development : theory, evidence and policy
Naudé, Wim - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009774302
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Capabilities and (missed) opportunity for women's entrepreneurship in Kuwait
Langworthy, Melissa; Warnecke, Tonia - In: Journal of economic issues 54 (2020) 2, pp. 404-412
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012415821
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Innovation is the answer! But is development the question? : assessing innovation against the capabilities approach to development
Barton, Chris J.; Grossman, Gary M.; Hafed, Yagana - In: The journal of development studies 58 (2022) 11, pp. 2180-2197
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013417595
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Cross-border patenting, globalization, and development
LaBelle, Jesse; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; … - 2023
development. Our theory delivers a gravity equation for cross-border patents. To test the model's predictions, we compile a new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014444894
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Robots for economic development
Calì, Massimiliano; Presidente, Giorgio - 2021
Recent evidence suggests that automation technologies entail a trade-off between productivity gains and employment losses for the economies that adopt them. This paper casts doubts on this trade-off in the context of a developing country. It shows significant productivity and employment gains...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012626724
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Chapter 47 Economic Development and the Decline of Agricultural Employment
Foster, Andrew D.; Rosenzweig, Mark R. - In: Handbook of development economics : volume 4, (pp. 3051-3083). 2007
This chapter considers the linkages between agricultural development and rural non-farm activities. The chapter is … linkages between agricultural development and non-farm employment under different regimes distinguished by the mobility of … concludes with suggestions for future data collection efforts as well as the development of more sophisticated models of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014024673