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Innovative firms or innovative owners? : determinants of innovation in micro, small, and medium enterprises

De Mel, Suresh - 2009

"Innovation is key to technology adoption and creation, and to explaining the vast differences in productivity across and within countries. Despite the central role of the entrepreneur in the innovation process, data limitations have restricted standard analysis of the determinants of innovation...

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Entrepreneurship in post-conflict transition : the role of informality and access to finance

Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli - 2009

"The authors examine the factors affecting the transition to self-employment in Bosnia and Herzegovina, using the World Bank Living Standard Measurement Survey panel household survey for the years 2001-2004. In the beginning of the sample, the country changed its legal framework, with the...

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Does gender matter for firm performance? : evidence from Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Sabarwal, Shwetlena - 2008

"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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Indigenous ethnicity and entrepreneurial success in Africa : some evidence from Ethiopia

Taye Mengistae - 2001

Manufacturing businesses owned by an indigenous ethnic group, the Gurage typically perform better than those of members of any other (major or minority) groups in Ethiopia. Gurage-owned businesses are normally larger and grow faster. Yet Gurage business owners typically are less educated than...

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Is inequality bad for business? : a nonlinear microeconomic model of wealth effects on self-employment

Mesnard, Alice - 2001

much stimulus to entrepreneurship …

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The regional dimension of North-South trade-related r&d spillover

Schiff, Maurice W. - 2009

total factor productivity growth in Korea, Mexico, and Jordan. Measures of foreign research and development are constructed … the South. The findings show that technology diffusion and productivity gains tend to be regional. Jordan benefits mainly …

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Public infrastructure and private investment in the Middle East and North Africa

Agénor, Pierre-Richard - 2005

East and North Africa-Egypt, Jordan, and Tunisia. They highlight various channels through which public infrastructure may … public infrastructure has both "flow" and "stock" effects on private investment in Egypt, but only a "stock" effect in Jordan …

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Insurance regulation in Jordan : new rules, old system

Vittas, Dimitri - 2004

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Nonfarm income, inequality, and poverty in rural Egypt and Jordan

Adams, Richard H. - 2001

Nonfarm income has a greater impact on poverty and inequality in Egypt than in Jordan. In rural Egypt the poor receive … almost 60 percent of their income from nonfarm sources, while in rural Jordan they receive less than 20 percent. The reason … poor are "pushed" into nonfarm work; while in rural Jordan, land is not very productive and access is not highly prized. In …

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The developing world's bulging (but vulnerable) "middle class"

Ravallion, Martin - 2009

"The "developing world's middle class" is defined here as those who are not poor when judged by the median poverty line of developing countries, but are still poor by US standards. The "Western middle class" is defined as those who are not poor by US standards. Although barely 80 million people...

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