SMEs, Growth, and Poverty: Cross-Country Evidence

By Thorsten Beck, Asli Demirgüç-Kunt, Ross Levine. 2005

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Subfields: Business and International Management, Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation

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Measuring Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries (2009, background): “A strong small business sector and entrepreneurship are generally linked to a strong economy ( Beck, Demirguc-Kunt and Levine 2005 ).”
Small vs. Young Firms Across the World: Contribution to Employment, Job Creation, and Growth (2011, positive): “Our findings are also consistent with the results in Beck, Demirguc-Kunt, and Levine (2005) who find a large SME contribution to employment across 54 (mostly developed) countries and a strong association between the SME sector and GDP/capita growth but no evidence of causality.”
The missing link: knowledge diffusion and entrepreneurship in endogenous growth (2010, methodology): “Evans and Jovanovic (1989), Evans and Leighton (1989), and Blanchflower and Oswald (1998) is used: the nonagricultural self-employed.”
SMEs in sustainable development: Their role in poverty reduction and employment generation in sub-Saharan Africa (2020, background): “However, Beck, Demirguc-Kunt, and Levine (2005) argued that, pending financial and institutional improvements, direct government financial support to SMEs can enhance economic growth and development.”
Firm Innovation in Emerging Markets: The Role of Finance, Governance, and Competition (2011, background): “…rights and contracting institutions (e.g., Acemoglu and Johnson (2005)), investment climate and business environment obstacles to growth (e.g., Beck, Demirgüç-Kunt, and Levine (2005), Ayyagari, Demirgüç-Kunt, and Maksimovic (2008)), firm financing patterns (e.g., Beck, Demirgüç-Kunt,…”
Financing Firms in India (2006, background): “With rampant tax evasion, the shadow economy in India is significant and estimated to be about 23% of GDP.11 To summarize, despite strong protection provided by the law, legal protection is considerably weakened in practice by corruption within the government and 11 This figure is 22.4% according to”
What's Distinctive about Growth-Oriented Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries? (2005, background): “Recent research (Romer 1990, Beck et al. 2004) has reminded us that new firms are more likely to grow.”
Property rights protection and corporate R&D: Evidence from China (2010, background): “…recently, a new approach to studying economic growth and development has emerged which emphasizes the role of economic institutions (e.g. Acemoglu et al., 2002, 2005; Barro 1990; Beck et al., 2005; Claessens and Laeven, 2003; Djankov et al., 2003; Johnson et al., 2002; La Porta et al., 1998, 2002).”