Measuring the Business Environment for Entrepreneurship in Fragile States

Abstract

More than a billion people live in around 50 developing countries that have been described as ‘fragile states’ (Naudé and Santos-Paulino et al. 2008). According to Binzel and Brück (2007: 5) fragility refers to ‘the existence of persistent, systematic, significant and interrelated social, political and economic uncertainties’. Fragile and post-conflict state policy priorities may differ from those of non-conflict affected countries because the necessities per se are different, but also because problems are atypically severe and they are atypically sensitive to specific reform processes (Collier and Hoeffler 2002). These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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