productivity and convergence. The potential existence of geographical spillovers of human capital is also considered by applying … of human capital on regional productivity and convergence, but reveals no evidence of any positive geographical …

smaller scale of operations (as measured by sales revenues) and are less efficient in terms of Total Factor Productivity (TFP …

Innovation is key to technology adoption and creation, and to explaining the vast differences in productivity across …

Since Chinese government initiated economic reform in the late 1970s, entrepreneurship and private sectors have emerged … gradually and played an increasingly important role in promoting economic growth. However, entrepreneurship is distributed … of entrepreneurship for both manufacturing and services. For both sectors, entrepreneurship (measured by new private …

understanding of rural non-farm entrepreneurship, particularly with regard to the role of young adults in this sector. This paper … productivity in enterprises operated by young owners. Using the World Bank's recent LSMS-ISA database that covers six countries in … young adults to start enterprises, but to also enable young entrepreneurs to improve productivity in already existing …