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Credit Constraints, Organizational Choice, and Returns to Capital: Evidence from a Rural Industrial Cluster in China

Ruan, Jianqing; Zhang, Xiaobo - 2009

Traditional economic theory posits that a well functioning capital market is a necessary condition for industrialization and economic growth. However, in reality it is observed that micro and small enterprises are ubiquitous because entrepreneurs can set up business in low-return activities with...

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Entrepreneurial Programs: Which Contribute to Oklahoma Business Owners' Success?

Brooks, Lara; Whitacre, Brian; Muske, Glenn; Woods, Mike; … - 2010

Many rural communities are adopting entrepreneurship and small business development services as components of their …

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Barriers to entrepreneurship in the Western Cape

Cupido, Christopher - 2002

acquisition and management skills are barriers to entrepreneurship. The only factor that is contrary to the perception is the …

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Mentoring as a support intervention for the entrepreneurs of Peninsula Technikon's Technology Enterprise Centre

Petersen, Tania - 2002

By international standards South Africa's unemployment rate and poverty levels are extremely high. Currently the unemployment rate is approximately 30% (Business Day, 28 March 2002) or in the region of 40% if those who are not actively seeking work are included. Owing to the high unemployment...

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The scope and extent of home-based business income relative to employment earnings in financing basic household expenditures: a study in the sub-economic housing area of Kleinvlei in the Cape Metropole

Pick, Bernard - 2002

The scope and extent of home-based businesses and the determination of the method by which the greater portion of household income is generated, in poor neighbourhoods, is the crux ofthis study.The study was undertaken among the 2245 households in the Kleinvlei sub-economic housing area located...

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Sustainable micro-entrepreneurship to ensure positive economic growth in the Western Cape

Richards, Amanda Dale - 2006

focused on micro-entrepreneurship in the Cape Flats area of the Western Cape, specifically on survivalist micro …

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Essays On Entrepreneurial Financing

Jia, Ye - 2011

the first chapter, by quantitatively evaluating the impact of different personal bankruptcy regimes on entrepreneurship in … a life-cycle model with occupational choices, I conclude that personal bankruptcy law affect entrepreneurship mainly …-bankruptcy punishments have the largest impact on entrepreneurship compared to variations in other dimensions of the bankruptcy regime. In …

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Assisting entrepreneurs : challenges facing U.S. microcredit programs into the 21st century

Beighle, James D. - 1999

Microcredit programs are widely employed as poverty elimination and economic development tools by a growing number of U.S. nonprofit organizations. This paper is an examination of U.S. microcredit programs' organizational operations, their strengths and weaknesses, and their ability to...

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Competitive success for foreign entrepreneurs in Nicaragua

Lombardo, Melissa B. - 2006

Competitive success is important in a new global environment. Due to attractive real estate prices in Central America, many foreigners are making Nicaragua their new home. Investors are noticing increased opportunities to open up a business venture whether it is a hotel, restaurant or other...

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The short- and long-run employment impact of COVID-19 through the effects of real and financial shocks on new firms.

Albert, Christoph; Caggese, Andrea; González, Beatriz - 2020

En este artículo usamos la evidencia empírica más reciente disponible para predecir el impacto del shock del Covid-19 en la tasa de entrada de empresas, en especial en la entrada de empresas de alto crecimiento, y en sus implicaciones en la creación de empleo a corto y a largo plazo. El...

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