Entrepreneurship - new data, new research

Sep 25, 2007

Entrepreneurship - new data, new research

World Bank - Private Sector Development Blog: Entrepreneurship - new data, new research

What drives entrepreneurship across countries? What is the effect of entrepreneurship on economic development? Important questions, but up to now little data to answer them.

The 2007 World Bank Group Entrepreneurship Survey helps fill this gap with data for 84 developing and industrial countries. A first analysis of the data shows that countries with better governance and fewer licensing procedures have more entrepreneurs. Political turmoil seems to hurt entrepreneurship.

Posted at 05:58 PM in Business, Economic Development, Economics | Permalink

Tags: Entrepreneurship

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