Working Paper #2012-027
Entrepreneurship and economic development: Theory, evidence and policy
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 and development; and (iii) fresh insights for
entrepreneurship policy for development that emerges from recent
advanced in this area, including female entrepreneurship in developing
countries.
- Keywords
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- Entrepreneurship
- development
- small business
- private sector development JEL Classification numbers: M13
- O10
- O17
- O40
Cite this as
APA 7th ed.Naudé, W. (2012). Entrepreneurship and economic development: Theory, evidence and policy (UNU-MERIT Working Paper No. 2012-027). UNU-MERIT. https://unu-merit.nl/publications/working-papers/abstract/?id=4691