Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index in WSJ

Zoltan Acs and Laszlo Szerb’s work on the Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index for the Small Business Administration is covered by Jeff May in the Wall Street Journal:

What’s more, some emerging-markets powerhouses like China, Russia, Brazil and India, as well as nations like Chile and the Czech Republic, are due for big improvements, says Zoltan Acs, a Small Business Administration economist and co-author of the agency’s study of entrepreneurial performance around the world. China, for instance, ranks as just the 40th best place in the world to start a company. Yet China and its up-and-coming peers score high on forward-looking measures like expectations for job creation—so they’re likely to catch up fast with more-advanced economies.

The 2011 Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index is available from Edgar Elgar.