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Growth-oriented entrepreneurial start-ups generate more economic growth than other self-employed businesses, yet they only constitute a small fraction of start-ups. We examine whether financial constraints impede these types of start-ups by exploiting lottery wins as exogenous wealth shocks. We...
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productive entrepreneurship and private sector employment in Africa. -- credit constraints ; productive entrepreneurship …
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productive entrepreneurship and private sector employment in Africa …
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productive entrepreneurship and private sector employment in Africa …
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women entrepreneurs of Pakistan. Strengthening women's entrepreneurship may play a significant role to alleviate poverty …
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productive entrepreneurship and private sector employment in Africa …
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This paper combines the theories on social capital and occupational choices to explain how social capital that saves on transaction costs and scale economies of skills in the production technology, determine the relative specialization between entrepreneurs-managers and markets in governing...
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The present work addresses how and to what extent the personal and professional relationship networks of small-scale local entrepreneurs help improve their scarce resource endowments. Adopting a mechanistic and functioning oriented view of social capital, the paper suggests the existence of two...
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Innovative entrepreneurship is considered an important pillar for economic development and has sparked a lively … that takes stock of the academic knowledge about innovative entrepreneurship and summarizes the evidence from 102 empirical … innovative entrepreneurship. Based on this state-of-the-art literature review, directions for future research are discussed. …
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Women's role in economic development is commonly admitted. But in many countries, women's economic activities are still an extension of historical domestic occupation. In this article, we analyze the Haitian women entrepreneurial situation and show that women empowerment currently claimed by...
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