Purpose - In developing countries like Tanzania, gems and jewellery industry mainly consists of disintegrated and unstable micro and small workshops which operate in a way that misalign value addition processes. This study is aimed to bridge gap by focussing on exploitation of industrial...

Despite managing rapid economic growth and demonstrating poverty reduction, Ethiopia did not achieve growth-enhancing rural transformation. A need to understand how to realize this can be obtained by synthesizing lessons from countries that have already attained it. In light of this, the purpose...

The traditional artisanal clusters are dwindling, which, if turned around, could provide meaningful employment at the rural level. This paper aims to listen to the voices of self-employed artisans (microentrepreneurs) of a traditional village-based microenterprise artisanal cluster manufacturing...

While it is by now well known that the privatization of township- and village-run enterprises (TVREs) has been rapidly and widely taking place in China, it is much less known whether and to what extent privatization has improved resource allocation and productivity. As a first step toward the...