Entrepreneurship and Development: The role of information asymmetries

World Bank Economic Review

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 448-455

  Klapper, Leora F ^a   Love, Inessa ^a  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

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ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ECONOMIC POLICY; ENTREPRENEUR;

EID: 84855720723     PISSN: 02586770     EISSN: 1564698X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/wber/lhr044     Document Type: Article

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