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– Whither Africa?
The global economic crisis beginning in 2008 has come at an inopportune time for Africa. Economic growth had recovered, poverty had declined, and human development had improved. Then the crisis hit. Growth then fell by 60 per cent. The growth decline has been less than in previous economic crises...
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Entrepreneurship and Conflict
Book Chapter
– A Latecomer Adjusting to Crises
From the book:
Pathways to Industrialization in the Twenty-First Century
Book Chapter
– The Past, Present, and Future of Industrialization
From the book:
Pathways to Industrialization in the Twenty-First Century
Book Chapter
– Impact on Waste Scavenging in Developing Countries
From the book:
Pathways to Industrialization in the Twenty-First Century
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Climate change is a phenomenon leading to randomly distributed disasters around the globe. Due to massive economic and technical asymmetry between the advanced North and the developing South efficient climate and industrial policy is particular difficult. Globally efficient policy would need to...
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– Impact on Waste Scavenging in Developing Countries
China has undergone remarkable economic growth spearheaded by industrialization. Chinese industry demands a wide variety of raw materials in increasing amounts in order to manufacture all kinds of products. Industrial demand exceeds domestic supply for several materials. Thus, China needs to import...
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– A Latecomer Adjusting to Crises
This paper examines Indonesia’s industrialization performance and policies, including its latecomer status, its generally rapid growth since the mid-1960s, its pronounced policy and performance episodes, and its ambivalent embrace of globalization. Particular attention is accorded to the deep...
Journal Article
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Small Business, Entrepreneurship, and Violent Conflict in Developing Countries
Journal Article
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Female Entrepreneurship Across Countries and in Development
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Entrepreneurship is generally regarded as a force of change, innovation, and development in modern economies. Entrepreneurs bring new and better products to markets, restore allocative efficiency through arbitrage and reinvest their profits. However, it has been argued that the same energy and...
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Entrepreneurship, Developing Countries and Development Economics
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Industrialization has long been seen as the answer to underdevelopment and poverty. First this led countries to follow protectionist import substitution policies but as these failed developing countries have opened up to trade and FDI and tried to follow strategies of export driven industrialization...
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This paper uses inequality decomposition techniques in order to analyse the consequences of entrepreneurial activities to household income inequality in southern Ethiopia. A uniform increase in entrepreneurial income reduces per capita household income inequality. This implies that encouraging rural...
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