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Principal Topic Small and micro-enterprises are believed to play a significant part in economic growth and poverty allevition in developing countries. However, there are a range of issues that arise when looking at the support required for local enterprise development, the role of micro finance...
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In July 2009, a team of 38 researchers carried out the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) survey in the Kingdom of … Tonga. The GEM survey estimates the proportion of the general population involved in business start-ups and new firm … creation. This paper describes not the results of the survey but rather the methodology that was employed. Because Tonga is …
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Developing countries have recently experienced a burgeoning of small-scale individual entrepreneurs (SIEs) – who range from petty traders to personal service workers like small street vendors, barbers and owners of small shops – as a result of market-based reforms, rapid urbanisation,...
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