This chapter reviews the recent literature in economics on small-scale entrepreneurship (“
microentrepreneurship”) in low-income countries. Major topics in the literature include the …

This paper introduces a comprehensive database of informal economic activity. The
database focuses on measures that have strong cross-country and over time coverage: it …

The African Economic Outlook is the only annual report that monitors in detail the economic
performance of 53 individual countries on the continent, using a strictly comparable …

Abstract Background In Ethiopia, farm households engage and pursue diverse off-farm and
non-farm livelihood activities to cope with diverse challenges such as drought. Due to the …

Financial inclusion is said to foster development and growth. However, progress in financial
inclusion has been slow in rural areas where poverty is most pronounced. This is often …

Entry rates into self-employment increase during recessions and decrease during economic
upswings. I show that this is mostly explained by the higher unemployment rate during a …

Recent research illustrates substantial gaps between entrepreneurial intentions and
behavior. This is a challenge for entrepreneurship promotion interventions that have …

This paper investigates the effects of minimum wage (MW) policies on entrepreneurship by
using all contiguous county-pairs in China that straddle prefecture borders. We find that the …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate how autonomy, moderated by
employment status, impacts the relationship between entrepreneurial mentoring (EM) and …

This study demonstrates that psychological capital is essential in the process of developing
and strengthening entrepreneurial intentions. We specifically investigate the mediating roles …