Can Basic Entrepreneurship Transform the Economic Lives of the Poor?
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- Bandiera, Oriana & Das, Narayan & Burgess, Robin & Gulesci, Selim & Sulaiman, Munshi & Rasul, Imran, 2013. "Can basic entrepreneurship transform the economic lives of the poor?," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 58032, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
- Oriana Bandiera & Robin Burgess & Narayan Das & Selim Gulesci & Imran Rasul & Munshi Sulaiman, 2013. "Can Basic Entrepreneurship Transform the Economic Lives of the Poor?," STICERD - Economic Organisation and Public Policy Discussion Papers Series 043, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE.
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Keywords
asset transfers; capital constraints; vocational training; occupational choice; structural change; poverty;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
- I30 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General
- D50 - Microeconomics - - General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium - - - General
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEV-2013-05-19 (Development)
- NEP-ENT-2013-05-19 (Entrepreneurship)
- NEP-LTV-2013-05-19 (Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty)
- NEP-MFD-2013-05-19 (Microfinance)
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