Journal Special Issue
Entrepreneurship, Developing Countries and Development Economics

We are pleased to announce a Special Issue of the Small Business Economics Journal on Entrepreneurship, Developing Countries and Development Economics, guest edited by Wim Naudé. With more than a billion people living in absolute poverty it is of great practical importance to understand if and when entrepreneurship is a binding constraint on economic development and catching up in developing countries. This in turn requires at least a deeper theoretical modeling of the entrepreneur in development economics. This special edition contains a number of contributions, emanating from the UNU-WIDER project on Promoting Entrepreneurial Capacity, that integrates the disciplines of entrepreneurship and development economics. These contributions model and explore the role of the entrepreneur in key areas of concern for development economics, such as structural change and economic growth, income and wealth inequalities, welfare, poverty traps, and market failures.

Table of contents
  1. Entrepreneurship, Developing Countries, and Development Economics: New Approaches and Insights
    Wim Naudé
  2. Entrepreneurship and Structural Economic Transformation
    Thomas Gries, Wim Naudé
    More Working Paper | Entrepreneurship and Structural Economic Transformation
  3. High-Growth Entrepreneurial Firms in Africa: A Quantile Regression Approach
    Micheline Goedhuys, Leo Sleuwaegen
    More Working Paper | High-Growth Entrepreneurial Firms in Africa
  4. Informal Firms in Developing Countries: Entrepreneurial Stepping Stone or Consolation Prize?
    John Bennett
    More Working Paper | Informal Firms in Developing Countries
  5. Entrepreneurship and Welfare
    Jagannadha Pawan Tamvada
    More Working Paper | Entrepreneurship and Welfare
  6. Entrepreneurship and Income Inequality in Southern Ethiopia
    Ayal Kimhi
    More Working Paper | Entrepreneurship and Income Inequality in Southern Ethiopia
  7. Credit Constraints, Entrepreneurial Talent, and Economic Development
    Milo Bianchi
    More Working Paper | Credit Constraints, Entrepreneurial Talent, and Economic Development
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