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Drivers of Entrepreneurship and Post-entry Performance of Newborn Firms in Developing Countries

Quatraro, Francesco; Vivarelli, Marco - 2014

particular focus on developing countries (DCs). In particular, the concept of "entrepreneurship" is critically discussed …

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Drivers of Entrepreneurship and Post-Entry Performance : Microeconomic Evidence from Advanced and Developing Countries

Vivarelli, Marco - 2013

The aim of this study is to provide a microeconomic investigation of the concept of entrepreneurship; in particular, it … discusses the following issues: 1) the alternative ways of looking at entrepreneurship, distinguishing "creative destruction … (of the new firm); and 4) the possible scope for an economic policy aimed at maximizing the impact of entrepreneurship on …

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Identifying and Spurring High-Growth Entrepreneurship : Experimental Evidence from a Business Plan Competition

McKenzie, David J. - 2015

Almost all firms in developing countries have fewer than 10 workers, with the modal firm consisting of just the owner. Are there potential high-growth entrepreneurs with the ability to grow their firms beyond this size? And, if so, can public policy help alleviate the constraints that prevent...

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Entrepreneurship and the Allocation of Government Spending Under Imperfect Markets

Islam, Asif - 2015

Previous studies have established a negative relationship between total government spending and entrepreneurship …. By combining macroeconomic government spending data with individual-level entrepreneurship data, the analysis finds a … entrepreneurship while confirming a negative relationship between total government consumption and entrepreneurial activity. The …

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Entrepreneurship Capital and Technical Efficiency : The Role of New Business/Firms as a Conduit of Knowledge Spillovers

Laborda Castillo, Leopoldo; Guasch, José Luis; … - 2012

Increasingly, entrepreneurship is being discussed and considered as a source of high economic growth and … prove quite useful to analyze the impact of countries' entrepreneurship capital on economic performance and can be a guide … entrepreneurship capital promotes economic performance by serving as a conduit of knowledge spillovers. In addition, kernel density …

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Who Are the Microenterprise Owners? Evidence from Sri Lanka on Tokman v. de Soto

De Mel, Suresh; McKenzie, David J.; Woodruff, Christopher - 2012

Is the vast army of the self-employed in low income countries a source of employment generation? This paper uses data from surveys in Sri Lanka to compare the characteristics of own account workers (non-employers) with wage workers and with owners of larger firms. The authors use a rich set of...

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Does Gender Matter for Firm Performance? Evidence from Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Sabarwal, Shwetlena; Terrell, Katherine D. - 2012

Using 2005 firm level data for 26 countries in Eastern and Central Europe, this paper estimates performance gaps between male and female-owned businesses, while controlling for location by industry and country. The findings show that female entrepreneurs have a significantly smaller scale of...

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