Opportunity entrepreneurs - potential drivers of non-farm growth in rural Vietnam?
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Keywords
Necessity entrepreneurship;  opportunity entrepreneurship;  developing countries; Vietnam;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- L2 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior
- O18 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure
- R23 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Household Analysis - - - Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGR-2012-06-05 (Agricultural Economics)
- NEP-DEV-2012-06-05 (Development)
- NEP-SEA-2012-06-05 (South East Asia)
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