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Necessity entrepreneurs : microenterprise education and economic development

Brewer, Jeremi (contributor); Gibson, Stephen W. (contributor) - 2014

sustainable business. Moreover, it will be an invaluable tool to those working in non-profit organizations and non …

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Herreño, Juan; Ocampo Díaz, Sergio - 2020

Selection into self-employment among the poor is dominated by subsistence concerns, which leads to high levels of unproductive self-employment in developing countries. We incorporate this view into an otherwise benchmark macro-development model by allowing for labor frictions. Standard models...

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Challenging factors affecting access to finance by female micro entrepreneurs in Anambra State, Nigeria

Metu, Amaka Gertrude; Nwogwugwu, Uche C. C. - In: Journal of African business 25 (2024) 1, pp. 142-154

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Self-Employed or Employing Others? Pre-Entry Capabilities, Entrepreneurial Action, and the Learned Resourcefulness of Microcredit Firm Founders

Bradley, Steven W.; McMullen, Jeffery S.; Atmadja, Adwin; … - 2016

We survey 612 entrepreneurs who are members of microcredit programs across three developing countries to examine the determinants of firm employment. We find that for opportunity-motivated entrepreneurs, a greater number of employees are predicted by pre-entry means (managerial skill,...

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Microcredit for Self-Employed Disabled Persons in Developing Countries

Mersland, Roy - 2007

time the microfinance community lacks information on disability issues. In this report we aim on closing the gap in … knowledge and culture between the disability- and the microfinance communities. We apply resource based theory to analyze when … microfinance institutions and the disabled population is probably the main hindrance for increased penetration of microcredit …

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The Impact of Micro Credit on Self Employment of Women – A Survey on Jaffna District, Sri Lanka

Yogendrarajah, Rathiranee - 2014

The micro-credit programs provide a two-tiered approach to the credit facilities for the purchase of capital equipments in order to promote the self-employment and the noncredit services. This paper addresses the challenging issue of whether microcredit programmes are tools for enhance the self...

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