Evidence of Opportunity and Necessity Driven Entrepreneurship in Nigeria

• Main Authors: Fariastuti, Djafar, Abubakar, S. Garba, Shazali, Abu Mansor
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: FundaCja Cognitione 2013
• Subjects: H Social Sciences (General)
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/17967/1/Abubakar.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/17967/; http://www.jemi.edu.pl/vol-9-issue-3-2013
• Institution: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak

The objective of this paper is to examine the influence of poverty, unemployment and GDP on entrepreneurship. Time series data for 31 years was collected from various official sources for the analysis. Vector autoregressive (VAR) framework was adopted to systematically capture the rich dynamic of mu...