Date of Award

Winter 12-15-2015

Degree Type

Thesis

Department

Political Science

Director of Thesis

Caroline Nagel

First Reader

John McDermott

Second Reader

John McDermott

Abstract

My thesis examines the potential economic impact of entrepreneurial education in Amman, Jordan. In order to investigate this topic, I also considered the economic impacts of increased entrepreneurism and access to education more broadly. I found that entrepreneurial education is just a small piece of a much larger ecosystem needed to support economic development. In fact, encouraging the creation of nascent firms is a somewhat dubious aim given the lack of scholarship assessing whether there is a shortage of entrepreneurial activity in the Jordanian economy. Institutional factors are a vastly more important component of efforts to spur growth.

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© 2015, Nicole Bills

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