TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fields,Gary S.
AU  - Pfeffermann,Guy Pierre
TI  - Pathways out of poverty: private firms and economic mobility in developing countries 
SN  - 1402074123
AV  - HC59.7 .P357 2003
U1  - 339.46091724 21
PY  - 2003///]
CY  - Boston, Washington, DC
PB  - Kluwer Academic Publishers, International Financial Corporation, World Bank Group
KW  - Business enterprises
KW  - Developing countries
KW  - Occupational mobility
KW  - Economic conditions
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preface; Peter Woicke --; Foreword; Nicholas Stern --; 1; Reducing Poverty: The Overall Framework; Guy Pfeffermann and Gary S. Fields --; 2; Escaping from Poverty: Household Income Dynamics in Indonesia, South Africa, Spain, and Venezuela; Gary S. Fields, Paul L. Cichello, Samuel Freije, Marta Menendez and David Newhouse --; 3; Long-term Economic Mobility and the Private Sector in Developing Countries: New Evidence; Gary S. Fields and Walter S. Bagg --; 4; Informal Self-Employment: Poverty Trap or Decent Alternative?; William E. Maloney --; 5; Generating Upward Mobility: The Case of Korea and Private Sector Development; Se-Il Park --; 6; The Central Role of Entrepreneurs in Transition Economies; John McMillan and Christopher Woodruff --; 7; Opportunities off the Farm as a Springboard Out of Rural Poverty: Five Decades of Development in an Indian Village; Peter Lanjouw and Nicholas Stern --; 8; The Problem of African Entrepreneurial Development; Tyler Biggs and Manju Shah --; 9; The Firms Speak: What the World Business Environment Survey Tells Us about Constraints on Private Sector Development; Geeta Batra, Daniel Kaufmann and Andrew H. W. Stone --; 10; Obstacles Facing Smaller Business in Developing Countries; Beatrice Weder --; 11; Bringing SMEs into Global Markets; Kris Hallberg and Yasuo Konishi --; 12; The Role of Government in Enhancing Opportunity for the Poor: Economic Mobility, Public Attitudes, and Public Policy; Carol Graham
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