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The Economic Legacy of Civil War: Firm Level Evidence from Sierra Leone
Collier, Paul; Duponche, Marguerite - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010
This paper positions itself among the very rare microeconomic analyses on the consequences of civil war. Up to now, most analyses on this topic are based upon household surveys. The originality of the present study is that it investigates for the first time the likely predominant route by which...
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A Model of Destructive Entrepreneurship
Desai; Sameeksha; Acs; Zoltan; Weitzel; Utz - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010
The current research on entrepreneurship as an economic phenomenon often assumes its desirability as a driver of … unproductive entrepreneurship has been examined, destructive entrepreneurship has been largely ignored. We build from existing … theory and define destructive entrepreneurship as wealth-destroying. We propose three assumptions to develop a model of …
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