Table of Contents:
  • PART I. The role of the private sector: studies and evidence
  • 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 F. Maloney
  • PART II. The private sector at work: cases from around the world
  • 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
  • PART III. The business environment
  • 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
  • PART IV. Public policy and public attitudes
  • 11. Bringing SMEs into global markets / Kris Hallberg and.