Introduction -- The importance of everything but oil -- A theory about oil, policymakers, and the business environment -- Oil and the business environment in Iran -- Doing business in India's mining belt -- Reform in the Gulf Arab context: Saudi Arabia since the 1990s -- Conclusion

We construct a structural model of entry into self-employment to evaluate the impact of policies supporting entrepreneurship. Previous work has recognized that workers may opt for self-employment due to the nonpecuniary benefits of running a business and not necessarily because they are good at...

This policy brief examines the phenomenon of home-based entrepreneurship. It provides information on the types of businesses that entrepreneurs are most likely to operate out of the home, their reasons for this choice, and barriers to the development of home-based businesses. It examines how...

SWD-Schlagwörter: Entrepreneurship, Frauenförderung, Armutsbekämpfung, Subsaharisches Afrika . - Freie Schlagwörter (Deutsch): Weibliches Unternehmertum, wirtschaftliches Empowerment, Geschlechterrollen, randomisiertes Kontrollgruppenexperiment, Latent Profile Analysis. - Freie Schlagwörter...