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transformation, will stagnate. One such endogenous driver is entrepreneurship. In this paper I start with the reappraisal of African … agriculture and focus on the literature on entrepreneurship in Africa's structural transformation. I present a conceptual model to … describe how entrepreneurship reallocates farmers out of agriculture into non-agricultural activities and locations. Recent …
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understanding of rural non-farm entrepreneurship, particularly with regard to the role of young adults in this sector. This paper …
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Entrepreneurship, being largely an urban phenomenon, co-evolves over time with cities. While this relationship is like … co-evolution of entrepreneurship and cities. First, I provide a stylized model of development wherein the rise of cities … (urbanisation) is the outcome of the activities of entrepreneurs. Second, I provide a stylized overview of entrepreneurship and …
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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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Culture and the Individual Entrepreneur -- Introducing Entrepreneurship and Culture -- Entrepreneurial Motivations … -- Entrepreneurial Culture, Regional Innovativeness and Economic Growth -- Transnational Cultural Differences -- Entrepreneurship and its … Nascent Entrepreneurship -- Explaining Cross-National Variations in Entrepreneurship: The Role of Social Protection and …
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Unlike in the past where industrial policy was either focused on creation and growth of state-owned firms or alternatively consisted merely of broadly functional policies without consideration for firm or entrepreneurial specifics, the requirement now is that future industrial policy ought to be...
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We provide a formal model of entrepreneurship in human development. The framework is provided by the capabilities … approach (CA). Hence we extend not only the conceptualisation of entrepreneurship in development, but the reach of the CA into … entrepreneurship. From a CA view, entrepreneurship is not only a production factor, or a means to an end, as is often taken to be the …
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This paper investigates the impact of changes in the number of business owners on three measures of economic performance, viz. employment growth, GDP growth and labor productivity growth. Particular attention is devoted to the lag structure...
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