Entrepreneurship, Structural Change and a Global Economic Crisis

From:
Department for International Development
Published
1 January 2010
Document Type:
Working Paper
Theme:
Economic Growth
Authors:
Naude, W., Gries, T.

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. The model analytics identifies a number of challenges for structural change in a post-crisis world, including dealing with greater bank concentration, higher costs of bank monitoring and stricter regulations and collateral requirements, flights-to-safety in global finance and reduced incentives for innovation and job-creating start-up activities.

Citation

Gries, T.; Naude, W. Entrepreneurship, Structural Change and a Global Economic Crisis. UNU-WIDER, Helsinki, Finland (2010) 34 pp. ISBN 978-92-9230-294-8 [WIDER Working Paper No. 2010/57]

Entrepreneurship, Structural Change and a Global Economic Crisis

Published 1 January 2010
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