If you are not running your own business today, do you plan to start one in the next three years?
Whether a person answers “yes” or “no” to this question depends a lot on where she is located. According to the 2012 Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), a survey of nearly 200,000 adults in 69 nations, only 2 percent of people not currently running their own businesses in Japan and Russia intend to start one within the next three years. But 79 percent of non-entrepreneurs in Uganda intend to be in business for themselves within that time.
The large difference across countries in the fraction of the population that plans to start a business in the next few years raises the question: why?
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