Entrepreneurship in the BRICS: Economic Development and Growth in the Post-Pandemic World (Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies)

Entrepreneurship is a tool of innovation promotion that supports sound economic environments as it stimulates economic growth and development.The BRICS nations, i.e., Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, are a group of emerging countries comprising the highest developmental block of the emerging nations.It is imperative to assess the entrepreneurship policies, strategies, and promotional programmes and their implications for, among others, entrepreneurship funding, economic growth, and employment trends.The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the entrepreneurship environment and equally steered state funding priorities away from entrepreneurship development support worldwide.This research book assesses the effect that COVID-19 has had on government funding priority, policy interventions and resultant implications on the entrepreneurship environment, economic growth and employment with a focus on BRICS.Readers will gain insight into what entrepreneurship looks like in the BRICS con