TY - RPRT AU - Naudé, Wim TI - Entrepreneurship and Economic Development: Theory, Evidence and Policy PY - 2013/Jul/ PB - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) CY - Bonn T2 - IZA Discussion Paper IS - 7507 UR - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp7507 AB - This paper provides an overview of the state of the art of the intersection of development economics and entrepreneurship. Given the relative neglect of entrepreneurship by development scholars it deals with (i) recent theoretical insights from the intersection of entrepreneurship and development studies; (ii) the empirical evidence on the relationship between entrepreneurship and development; and (iii) fresh insights for entrepreneurship policy for development that emerges from recent advanced in this area, including female entrepreneurship in developing countries. KW - entrepreneurship KW - development KW - small business KW - private sector development KW - innovation KW - business ER -