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Entrepreneurship literature (Parker 2004) has rarely considered spatial location as a micro-determinant of occupational choice, although there are compelling reasons to posit that spatial location influences economic behavior. Using Bayesian semiparametric methodologies and geoadditive...

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Who suffers during recessions in Brazil?

Cravo, Túlio; Schimanski, Caroline - 2019

While the relationship between business cycles and employment is a topic of continuing interest, it has received limited attention in the literature focusing on developing countries. This study adds to the literature as it analyzes the heterogeneous correlations of the business cycle with...

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The Geography and Determinants of Entrepreneurship

Tamvada, Jagannadha Pawan - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

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The Dynamics of Self-employment in a Developing Country: Evidence from India

Tamvada, Jagannadha Pawan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

We examine the spatio-temporal dynamics of self-employment in India using geoadditive models and pseudo panel techniques. We test the claim of Iyigun and Owen (1999) that individuals invest in professional human capital and not in entrepreneurial human capital as an economy develops. The results...

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Distributional and Poverty Consequences of Globalization: A Dynamic Comparative Analysis for Developing Countries

Majeed, Muhammad Tariq; MacDonald, Ronald - Department of Economics, Adam Smith Business School - 2010

This study examines the impact of globalization on cross-country inequality and poverty using a panel data set for 65 developing counties, over the period 1970-2008. With separate modelling for poverty and inequality, explicit control for financial intermediation, and comparative analysis for...

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Who suffers during recessions in Brazil?

Cravo, Túlio; Schimanski, Caroline - 2019

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Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries

Naude, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Goedhuys, Micheline - eSocialSciences - 2011

How does innovation impact on development? How, and under what conditions, do entrepreneurs in developing countries … innovate? And what can be done to support innovation by entrepreneurs in developing countries? This policy brief addresses … these questions and explains the relationship between entrepreneurship, innovation and development. Policy lessons are drawn …

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Financing small and medium-scale contractors in developing countries: a Ghana case study

Eyiah, Alex; Cook, Paul - In: Construction Management and Economics 21 (2003) 4, pp. 357-367

(SME) finance. A survey in Ghana found that there was a strong desire to establish a contractors' bank. There would be the …

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Evaluating the influence of e-SCM on business integrity in SMEs

Abdelghaffar, Hany; Hassan, Nada - In: International journal of enterprise information systems … 9 (2013) 4, pp. 1-11

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Quality standards for food products : a particular burden for small producers in developing countries?

Chemnitz, Christine; Grethe, Harald; Kleinwechter, Ulrich - 2007

This paper develops an analytical framework which structures the problem of whether, how and to what extent small producers in developing countries are disadvantaged by the increasing prevalence of food quality standards. Based on a literature review, the empirical evidence is structured and...

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