Entrepreneurship, Structural Change and a Global Economic Crisis

Thomas Gries and Wim Naudé

No wp-2010-057, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: Building on a Lewis-type model of structural change and entrepreneurship we show how a global economic crisis consisting of a financial and a trade shock can undermine structural change in developing countries via the start-up and innovation activities of entrepreneurs.

Keywords: Economic development; Entrepreneurship; Financial crisis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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