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Entrepreneurship and economic development: Theory, evidence and policy

by Wim Naude UNU-MERIT Working Paper no.2012-027, October 2012 This paper provides an overview of the state of the art of the intersection of development and entrepreneurship. Given the neglect of entrepreneurship by development scholars it deals with (i) recent theoretical insights from the intersection of entrepreneurship and development studies; (ii) the empirical evidence on [...]

DO DEFICITS CROWD OUT PRIVATE BORROWING? EVIDENCE FROM FLOW OF FUNDS ACCOUNTS

by John J. Heim Rensselaer Working Papers Number 1102 Heim (2010) found a strong negative relationship between deficits and private consumer and investment spending, controlling for other key variables. The study did not directly test the mechanism by which deficits were related to consumer and investment spending, only the result. Crowd out theory hypothesizes the [...]

Emerging Issues at Secondary Level: Focus on Private Schools in Madhya Pradesh, India

by Manju Narula NUEPA Occassional Paper, 42, May 2012 The paper is based on the research study conducted on the state of Madhya Pradesh to investigate the reasons for massive increase of private secondary schools. The study explored the state government’s experience with private education during the early 1990s. This was a period of very [...]

Public and Private Sector Banks:Convergence in Performance

by Sidharth Sinha Economic & Political Weekly, May 19, 2012 This article examines the performance of public sector banks and the new private sector banks over the period 2005-06 to 2010-11. What emerges is that while the relative performance of public sector banks had improved signifi cantly by 2005-06, the new private sector banks had [...]

Entrepreneurship and Economic Development: Theory, Evidence and Policy

Wim Naudé UNU-MERIT Working Papers #2012-027 This paper provides an overview of the state of the art of the intersection of development and entrepreneurship. Given the neglect of entrepreneurship by development scholars it deals with (i) recent theoretical insights from the intersection of entrepreneurship and development studies; (ii) the empirical evidence on that  relationship between [...]

Variation in Private School Performance:The Importance of Village Context

by Amita Chedgar Economic and Political Weekly, March 17,2012 Using Annual Status of Education Report 2009 data, this paper investigates the linkage between private school performance and the context within which these schools operate. The results from this study indicate that the “positive private effect” or the private-public performance gap does vary based on the [...]

To what extent do infrastructure and financial sectors reforms interplay? – Evidence from panel data on the power sector in developing countries

by Lika BA and Farid GASMI IDEI working Paper, no. 692. The main goal of this study is to demonstrate the existence of a significant empirical link between infrastructure and financial sectors reforms the effects of which are reflected in infrastructure sectors performance. This paper reports on the findings of an exploration of this issue [...]

Information Economy Report 2011:ICTs as an Enabler for Private Sector Development

Published by UNCTAD, October 2011 Highlights of the Report:   The Information Economy Report 2011: ICTs as an Enabler for Private Sector Development (PSD) is the sixth in the flagship series published by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). The Report shows that the potential of leveraging information and communication technologies (ICTs) [...]

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