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economy. In particular, the empirical evidence provides consistent support that (1) the role of entrepreneurship has … may be that the current approach to entrepreneurship policy is misguided. The priority should not be on entrepreneurship …
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Objectives: This paper aims to examine the transition process from the development and state of entrepreneurship in 15 … transition, entrepreneurship. While it is surely the case that certain transition tasks, like privatizing state-owned enterprises … to entrepreneurship between the post-socialist countries of Europe and the non-post-socialist countries, controlling for …
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Ethnic and religious fractionalization have important effects on economic growth and development, but their role in internal violent conflicts has been found to be negligible and statistically insignificant. These findings have been invoked in refutation of the Huntington hypothesis, according...
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representation which may promote ethnic mobilization and foster support for informal (rather than formal) institutions which then may …/tribal institutions related to property rights and the rule of law is one of the possible channels through which the size of the …
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institutions and policies - to serve as a teaser. It concludes with some brief reflections on Asia’s future prospects over the next …
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The purpose of the chapter is to analyze Africa's economic successes in the past half century, to understand not only what made it possible but also and more importantly what risk factors may eventually bring it to an end or compromise it. While it may not be possible for Africa to alter, for...
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effect associated with the concentration of national income at different parts of the income distribution. To do so, we rely … as well as detailed information on the distribution of income within countries. We take advantage of detailed … result highlights the relevance of income shares that go to the middle part of the income distribution and seems especially …
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%. Despite policy efforts in the 2000s to raise the income of the bottom 40%, altogether, a more equitable income distribution is …
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This paper investigates the performance of fiscal rules in resource-rich countries (RRC). Using panel data for 57 commodity exporting countries from 1976 to 2021, we find that fiscal rules: (i) reduce the procyclicality of real public expenditures with terms of trade in oil exporting countries,...
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Improved governance and lower start-up costs may not be sufficient for encouraging the type of entrepreneurship that …) opportunitymotivated entrepreneurship (as opposed to necessity-motivated entrepreneurship) drives economic growth; (ii) governance and the … start-up costs are not significant determinants of opportunity entrepreneurship; and (iii) better governance leads to higher …
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