Barriers to Formal Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries

Barriers to Formal Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries

This paper explores new types of barriers to entrepreneurship and thus, to formal sector growth. The authors suggest that developing countries are characterized by a dual economy where a small modern industrialized sector co-exists with a large informal sector with little capital and low marginal pr...

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Main Author: Auriol, Emmanuelle
Format: Working Paper
Language:en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2013
Subjects:
dual economy
informal sector
labor productivity
formality
administrative barriers
entrepreneurship
informality
shadow economy
market entry fees
credit constraints
social barriers
forced mutual help
social obligation
coping with risk
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16364

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