TY - GEN AU - MAHAPATRA, A K TI - Measuring entrepreneurship in developing countries PY - 2014/// KW - ENTREPRENEURSHIP N2 - This paper discusses the difficulties associated with measuring entrepreneurship in developing countries. Three important dichotomies in the research on entrepreneurship are discussed: formal-informal, legal-illegal and necessity-opportunity. Several common measures of entrepreneurship are outlined along with their relevance to developing countries, including self-employment, global entrepreneurship monitor data, World bank group entrepreneurship survey data and OECD data ER -