The ability to adjust to structural change is vital to economic development, and entries can be active participants in … this process. This paper aims to shed some light on the relation between entrepreneurship and growth by arguing that … entrepreneurial activity relates to growth via reallocation of factors across sectors. While the importance of entrepreneurship for …

We review the literature on the distribution of farm sizes in sub-Saharan Africa, trends over time, drivers of change … widely viewed that African agriculture is dominated by small-scale farms, we show that medium-scale farms of 5 to 100 …

-based strategies exemplified under the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP). … agriculture therein, and the pace of structural transformation in Africa over the last 50 years. The evolution has involved …. Government intervention in favour of industrialization in the 1960s-1970s resulted in the neglect of agriculture, poor growth …

Agriculture renaissance means the renewed understanding and recommitment to the fundamental role of agriculture in the … development process. Operationally it implies different approaches at the country level based on the stage of development. For the … least developed countries of the world, it could mean re-engaging agriculture's potential as a driver of overall economic …

Building on a Lewis-type model of structural change and entrepreneurship we show how a global economic crisis … innovation activities of entrepreneurs. The model analytics identifies a number of challenges for structural change in a post …-up activities. -- entrepreneurship ; global economic crisis ; structural change …

A stylized fact of economic development is the structural transformation of countries from traditional, mainly … entrepreneurs and make a distinction between survivalist self-employment activities in the traditional sector, and opportunity …-driven entrepreneurship in the modern sector. The model shows how opportunity-driven entrepreneurship can drive structural transformation …

labour structural transformation from agriculture to non-agriculture as well as on urbanization, with a specific focus on … Although SPK4-01 titling alone is found to have no significant effect on urbanization, its impact depends significantly on … within-province transport infrastructure. More specifically, rural land right security increases urbanization more in …