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Entrepreneurship programs in developing countries : a meta regression analysis

by Yoonyoung  Cho and Maddaelna Honorati WB Policy Research Paper WPS.6402, April 2013 This paper provides a synthetic and systematic review on the effectiveness of various entrepreneurship programs in developing countries. It adopts a meta-regression analysis using 37 impact evaluation studies that were in the public domain by March 2012, and draws out several lessons [...]

ENTREPRENEURSHIP OR SURVIVAL? CASTE AND GENDER OF SMALL BUSINESS IN INDIA

by Ashwini Deshpande and Smrithi Sharma CDE working Paper no.228, March 2013 We use unit-level data from the registered manufacturing segment of the Third and Fourth rounds of the Indian Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) census data for 2001-2 and 2006-7 respectively, to understand the changes in involvement and dynamics not only of Dalits [...]

Caste and Entrepreneurship in India

by Lakshmi Iyer;Tarun Khanna and Ashutosh Varshney Economic and Political Weekly, February 9, 2013 It is now widely accepted that the lower castes have risen in Indian politics. Has there been a corresponding change in the economy? Using comprehensive data on enterprise ownership from the Economic Census of 1990, 1998 and 2005, this paper shows [...]

Political reservations and women’s entrepreneurship in India

by Ejaz Ghani; William R Kerr and Stephen D. O’Connell WB Policy Research Paper no.WPS 6307, January 2013 This paper quantifies the link between the timing of state-level implementations of political reservations for women in India with the role of women in India’s manufacturing sector. It does not find evidence that overall employment of women [...]

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 [...]

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

by Marco Vivarelli WB Policy Research Working Paper 6245 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”from simple”turbulence”; 2) the different microeconomic determinants of new firm formation, distinguishing”progressive”from”regressive”drivers; 3) the [...]

Seminar: GOD’S OWN COUNTRY a symposium on Kerala in transition , no.637 September 2012

GOD’S OWN COUNTRY a symposium on Kerala in transition symposium participants THE PROBLEM A short statement of the issues involved TRANSFORMATIONS AND TRIBULATIONS K.P. Kannan, Development Economist; Chairman, Laurie Baker Centre for Habitat Studies and Centre of Science and Technology for Rural Development (COSTFORD), Thiruvananthapuram COMPARING KERALA AND CUBA Joseph Tharamangalam, Professor Emeritus, Department of Sociology [...]

European Economic Review,Vol.56(4),May 2012

CONTENTS Debt shifting and ownership structure By Dirk Schindler, Guttorm Schjelderup Too much of a good thing? On the growth effects of the EU’s regional policy By Sascha O. Becker, Peter H. Egger, Maximilian von Ehrlich A dynamic analysis of the demand for health insurance and health care By Jonneke Bolhaar, Maarten Lindeboom, Bas van der Klaauw Ageing, [...]

Research Policy,Volume 41, Issue 7, Pages 1121-1282 (September 2012)

CONTENTS Exploring the emerging knowledge base of ‘the knowledge society’ Jan Fagerberg, Hans Landström, Ben R. Martin Entrepreneurship: Exploring the knowledge base Hans Landström, Gouya Harirchi, Fredrik Åström Science and technology studies: Exploring the knowledge base OBen R. Martin, Paul Nightingale, Alfredo Yegros-Yegros Knowledge flows – Analyzing the core literature of innovation, entrepreneurship and science [...]

What Do We Know About The Patterns and Determinants of Female Entrepreneurship Across Countries?

Maria Minniti and Wim Naudé European Journal of Development Research (2010) 22, 277–293. doi:10.1057/ejdr.2010.17; Published online 13 May 2010 In this article we provide an introduction to the papers in the special section of this edition of the European Journal of Development Research. We start by framing the challenges posed by female entrepreneurship to the research community, note some [...]

Entrepreneurship in Advanced and Developing Countries:A Microeconomic Perspective

by Marco Vivarelli IZA Discussion Paper No.6513, April, 2012 The purpose of this paper is to provide a contribution to the identification of the role of entrepreneurship in economic growth by mapping out: 1) alternative ways of looking at entrepreneurship, distinguishing ‘creative destruction’ from simple ‘turbulence’; 2) the different microeconomic determinants of new firm formation, [...]

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 [...]

Entrepreneurship in Services and Socially Disadvantaged

by Rajeev Dehejia, and Arvind Panagariya Columbia Program on Indian Economic Policies Working Paper No. 2011-7 While substantial literature now exists on poverty and inequality by social groups in India, almost nothing has been known on how the latter have fared as entrepreneurs. Out paper provides a first comprehensive look at entrepreneurship among the socially disadvantaged groups [...]

BRICS and South-South Cooperation in Medicine:Emerging Trends in Research and Entrepreneurial Collaborations

by Sachin Chaturvedi and Halla Thorsteinsdottir RIS-Discussion paper No. 177, March 2012 Though there is huge spectrum of South-South collaboration, led by the economies from the BRICS countries in the medical field there is a lack of studies examining the extent and characteristics of these collaborations and evaluating their benefits. The authors’ research on South-South [...]

International entrepreneurship and technological capabilities in the Middle East and North Africa

Juliane Brach and Wim Naudé UNU-MERIT Working Papers #2012-020 In this paper we investigate the extent of international entrepreneurship in Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Oman and Syria using a dataset covering 3,281 firms. We find that weak technological capabilities constrain  internationalization. Firms with ISO accreditation, an own website, and those who have introduced new technology have [...]

New Firm Creation and Failure: A Matching Approach

Thomas Gries, Stefan Jungblut  and Wim Naudé UNU-MERIT Working Papers #2012-015 We propose that the rate of creation and failure of new …rm start-ups can be modelled as a search and matching process, as in labor market matching models. Deriving a novel Entrepreneurship-Beveridge curve, we show that a successful start-up depends on the e¢ ciency [...]

Entrepreneurship, Stages of Development, and Industrialization

by Zoltan J. Ács and Wim Naudé UNU-MERIT Working Papers #2012-021 Unlike in the past where industrial policy was either focused on creation and growth of stateowned firms or alternatively consisted merely of broadly functional policies without consideration for firm or entrepreneurial specifics, the requirement now is that future industrial policy ought to be a [...]

Rural Entrepreneurship Development Programme in India – An Impact Assessment

by G. D. Banerjee NABARD Occasional Paper – 57 The study reveals that REDP is as an efficient instrument in creating income and employment opportunities for the rural youth especially for women in rural and semi-urban areas. The programme not only rediscovered the economic potentials in the traditional art but also brought life to artisans. [...]

The Limited Impact of ICTs on Microenterprise Growth: A Study of Businesses Owned by Women in Urban India

Han Ei Chew, Mark Levy, and Vigneswara Ilavarasan INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES & INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT VOL 7, ISSUE 4 – WINTER 2011 This article is presented as a response to the increasing need for rigorous impact assessment in ICT4D. The research reported here empirically examines whether ICTs enable microenterprise growth, to what degree, and under what conditions. [...]

Social Entrepreneurship: An Overview Of a Public University Alumni Survey

Kevin Kimle,  Li Yu,  Peter Orazem,  Robert W. Jolly Working Paper No. 11024   Date: December 2011 This report presents an overview of social entrepreneurship activities of public university graduates obtained from a survey.  Almost 3 percent of respondents had created at least one nonprofit organization.  The primary focus of the organizations founded by social entrepreneur respondents was [...]

Technology Business Incubators (TBIs): A Perspective for the Emerging Economies

by Mathew J Manimala and Devi Vijay IIMB Working Paper No.358, January 2012 Technology and entrepreneurship are often reckoned to be the twin-horses pulling national economies towards their developmental destinations. Technology based enterprises (TBEs) are specially attractive to policy-makers because of their higher potential for job creation and wealth-generation through  business growth as well as [...]

The Global Financial Crisis and DevelopmentImplications for the Entrepreneurial Economy

by Wim Naude MSM Working Paper 2011/01, January 2011 This paper provides an evaluation of the state of global development two years after the globalfinancial crisis of 2008. It argues that in the wake of the crisis a number of re-assesment of global development has taken place, especially with respect to (i) the surprising origins [...]

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN INDIA: THE ROLE OF INDIVIDUAL ENTERPRISE (AND ENTREPRENEURIAL SPIRIT)

Anil K. Lal and Ronald W. Clement Asia-Pacific Development Journal Vol. 12, No. 2, December 2005 T h e   I n d i a n   e c o n omy   p r o v i d e s   a   r e v e a l i n g   c [...]

Policies for Increasing Non-Farm Employment for Farm Households in India

Brajesh Jha IEG Working Paper No. 310, 2011 The present paper adopts a diagnostic approach; problems of non-farm employment in rural sector are identified by studying pattern and process of rural employment using data from the NSS quinquennial survey results on employment, unorganized manufacturing and also the CSO Economic Census results. Preliminary analysis shows that [...]

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS IN J & K STATE

Prof. Dr. Khursheed A. Butt Annual Summit on Business and Entrepreneurial Studies (ASBES 2011) Proceeding EDPs were on the economic agenda of the state government right from the beginning. A study into the effectiveness of EDPs in the state has revealed that the EDPs conducted during the period under study have been found to have [...]

LOCAL INDUSTRIAL STRUCTURES AND FEMALE ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN INDIA

by Ejas Ghani; William R Kerr and Stephen D.O’Connell NBER Working Paper 17596, November 2011 We analyze the spatial determinants of female entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing and services sectors. We focus on the presence of incumbent female-owned businesses and their role in promoting higher subsequent female entrepreneurship relative to male entrepreneurship. We find [...]

Spatial Determinants of Entrepreneurship in India

Ejaz Ghani, William R. Kerr, and Stephen D. O’Connell We analyze the spatial determinants of entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing and services sectors. Among general district traits, quality of physical infrastructure and workforce education are the strongest predictors of entry, with labor laws and household banking quality also playing important roles. Looking at the [...]

Profit or Purpose: The Dilemma of Social Enterprises

by M.S. Sriram IIMA W.P. No.2011-08-02 This paper examines the literature and practice in the field of social entrepreneurship. We specifically examine the diverse organisational forms under which Social Enterprises are undertaken and the dilemma they face when these enterprises grow. The literature is ambigious on what constitutes a social enterprise. While each of the [...]

Innovative business approaches for the reduction of extreme poverty and marginality?

Heike Baumüller, Christine Ladenburger, Joachim von Braun Working Paper Series 80 Extreme poverty is an immense political and market failure, wasting the potential of hundreds of millions of people. Investing in the creation of markets that include the extreme poor and marginalized should thus not only be considered as a charitable activity, but promises high [...]

SMEs, Entrepreneurship and Innovation

OECD Publishing. Date: May-2010 Small firms are playing an ever-increasing role in innovation, driven by changes in technologies and markets. Some spin-offs and high growth firms are having remarkable success. However, the broad bulk of small firms are not capitalising on their advantages. This book explores how government policy can boost innovation by improving the [...]

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