O empreendedorismo na agenda de desenvolvimento do Banco Mundial

Abstract

The aim of this thesis is to understand how the World Bank sees entrepreneurship as a tool for economic development throughout its history. In this research, economic development is understood as economic growth accompanied by a fair distribution of income and improvement in social indicators such as education, health, food, unemployment and poverty. The relationship between entrepreneurship and economic development was first established in the early twentieth century by Schumpeter, who recognized the entrepreneur as an innovative individual who, by introducing new combinations in the market, elevates him to a new level of development. Over the years, other studies such as those by Porter, Sachs and McArthur (2002) and those by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, cited in this work, have been developed. The World Bank, one of the most important international development organizations, started to dedicate resources to encourage entrepreneurship through investments, projects and publications of studies on the subject. Therefore, an exploratory qualitative research was carried out, through documentary survey in which content analysis was used to interpret the data. As a result of this research, we observed that entrepreneurship has been present on the World Bank's agenda since the 1950s, gaining space and importance within the discussions on the economic development of the organization, with the work directed to it, shaped according to economic thoughts. dominant of each era, but always in line with the principle of market development, competitiveness and innovation.