Putting the Entrepreneur Back into Development and Foreign Policy

Virgill, Nicola

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“…In many developing countries, government activity is too pervasive. There is overly excessive and complex regulation of business activities increasing the potential for rent seeking, on the part of firms, and corruption on the part of government officials ( [133] there is a "growing pie" or increasing resources with which to deal with poverty.…”

Section: Iv1 Demonstration Externalitiesmentioning

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Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries

Beck¹

2009

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in EconStor may Entrepreneurship in Developing CountriesMarch 2009 Zoltan Acs George Mason University Nicola Virgill George Mason University AbstractThis paper reviews the literature on economic development from import substitution to export promotion. It then examines the literature on entrepreneurship and economic development creating a framework for promoting development through demonstration effects, knowledge and information externalities and network externalities. It finished with an examination of public policies. JEL-classification: L26 O10

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Section: Iv1 Demonstration Externalitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries

Beck¹

2009

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Contextualizing Youth Entrepreneurship: The Case of Botswana's Young Farmers Fund

Williams

Hovorka

2013

J. Dev. Entrepreneurship

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Entrepreneurship is well established as a development strategy to facilitate youth empowerment in Africa. Existing scholarship on youth entrepreneurship, while informative, remains limited given its focus on either normative institutional structures or individual decision-making behaviors. Recent research offers a contextualist approach, featuring the dynamic relationship between individual behavior and structural context. Engaging and building upon a contextualist approach, this paper offers a place-based study of youth entrepreneurship in Botswana. The paper documents empirical findings revealing trends in youth circumstances and experiences, namely empowerment potential, financial strain and knowledge/skill gaps. It then explores the cultural, political and institutional contextual effects shaping youth entrepreneurship within the Young Farmers Fund (YFF). Drawing on elements of 'best practice,' the paper offers suggestions for enhancing practical entrepreneurship in Botswana through educational, technical and operational means. Although the paper contributes a case study of youth and entrepreneurship in Botswana, it also offers and demonstrates the conceptual framework of contextualism as a useful research tool for subsequent place-based studies.

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Putting the Entrepreneur Back into Development and Foreign Policy

Cited by 2 publications

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Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries

Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries

Contextualizing Youth Entrepreneurship: The Case of Botswana's Young Farmers Fund

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