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We study the effect of entrepreneurship and its allocation between necessity and opportunity entrepreneurship on three … and non-monetary wellbeing to entrepreneurial allocation. Using data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor we establish … that opportunity entrepreneurship may contribute towards national wellbeing and that better wellbeing in turn may stimulate …
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Developing and emerging economies have high entrepreneurship rates and relatively many small firms. There is enormous … heterogeneity among these firms and entrepreneurs. This paper presents a simple occupational choice model that captures motives for … entrepreneurship at both edges of the size distribution. The model is then used to analyse the effects of productivity growth …
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Small farms are the largest employment and small business group among the poor. Their businesses use mostly labor and local resources and face local constraints, but at the same time, they are affected by increasingly complex national and global economic changes, which lead to shifts in...
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sustainable irrigation technologies. As working population moves out of agriculture, urbanisation will gather pace. However …
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insecurity and agriculture. Among the various reasons for growing food insecurity the key one has been Urbanization and its … contemporary thinking and outlines the challenges with regard to the three very important dimensions, namely: urbanization, food …
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The development of urban digital platforms has changed its entrepreneurial environment and affected regional innovation … vitality. We calculated the development index of digital platforms of 294 prefecture-level cities in China between 2013 and … industrial structures. This impact has a nonlinear increasing "marginal effect" in which the faster the development of digital …
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helped jumpstart broader economic development. However, the changes have differed markedly in nature and speed across … growth and urbanization, which in turn induced deeper agrarian change and food system transformations. In South Asia, these … accelerated growth of both agriculture and non-agricultural sectors. Vast challenges of still widespread poverty and food …
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measures specifically designed for women entrepreneurs. -- entrepreneurship ; gender ; women entrepreneurs ; Africa …Whether policy support should be designed differently for women entrepreneurs is a particularly relevant question. To … answer this, and to inform the design of policies to provide appropriate support for women entrepreneurs, the paper compares …
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