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are ultimately financed via crowdfunding? A simple model and simulation reveals the answers to both questions to be: 'not …
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both high aspiration and low aspiration entrepreneurship. We also find that women benefit more from the larger informal …
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This paper studies the effects of private real estate collateral on entrepreneurial lending and entrepreneurial activity in the Netherlands. The residential collateral channel is especially relevant for sole-proprietors who own a business with unlimited liability. We used administrative data on...
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The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) is impacting on the industrialization options for Africa inter alia through … paper I set out the case for why Africa should industrialize. I then explore the opportunities and threats the 4IR pose for … Africa. Threats include job-losses and the re-shoring of manufacturing to advanced economies. Among the opportunities are …
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Africa; (iii) describe the resurgence of technological start-up entrepreneurship in Africa and (iv) call for policy support …In this paper I argue that the manufacturing sector still has an important role to play in Africa's development … start-up entrepreneurship. In this light I (i) show why manufacturing is vital for African economies, (ii) critically …
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of youth start-ups. Our paper contributes to closing a gap in the entrepreneurship and development literature with a … unemployment. We test the role of skills and training for productive youth entrepreneurship on data from a recent survey of …
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entrepreneurship in high-value added activities has made limited contributions to this growth, in part because of a weak business …
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Africa is not only the poorest and most rural continent, it is also the most youthful continent in terms of population … understanding of rural non-farm entrepreneurship, particularly with regard to the role of young adults in this sector. This paper … conclude that policies to support young entrepreneurs in rural Africa should not only focus on creating conditions that attract …
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agriculture and focus on the literature on entrepreneurship in Africa's structural transformation. I present a conceptual model to … transformation, will stagnate. One such endogenous driver is entrepreneurship. In this paper I start with the reappraisal of African … describe how entrepreneurship reallocates farmers out of agriculture into non-agricultural activities and locations. Recent …
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In many European countries, community entrepreneurship is increasingly considered as a means to initiate small … overcome a number of entry barriers and difficulties on the road to community entrepreneurship has in fact significantly …
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