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The study examines how mobile money innovations transform unemployed women to self-employed women. The empirical evidence is based on interactive quantile regressions focusing on data in 44 countries from sub-Saharan Africa for the period 2004 to 2018. The hypothesis that mobile money...
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, despite the good intentions, entrepreneurship policy initiatives have been incorrectly targeted, poorly implemented and …
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Purpose - The purposes of this paper are to review the streams of studies that link financial inclusion to small enterprise growth in Sub-Sahara Africa (SSA), to identify the research gaps they provide, and to prepare an agenda for future research in the field. Design/methodology/approach - The...
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This study examines the effects of the historical prevalence of infectious diseases on contemporary entrepreneurship … disease prevalence on contemporary entrepreneurship is mediated by property rights. The central hypothesis posits that a … guarantee of property rights reduces the effect of past diseases on entrepreneurship. Using data from 125 countries, we find …
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This paper forwards the view that some aspects of African culture enhance economic development on the continent while other aspects tend to constrain development. By drawing on the extant literature on culture and development, the paper discusses the manner in which economic activities are...
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incentives to nurture entrepreneurship must be maintained, policy-makers should also seek to pay attention to the role of trust …
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entrepreneurship. Previous studies reveal numerous proximate causes of entrepreneurship, but little is known about the fundamental … exert persistent impacts on present-day entrepreneurship. We provide support for the underlying hypothesis using Ordinary … averages between 2006 and 2018. Findings -Past diseases reduce entrepreneurship both directly and indirectly. The strongest …
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Purpose - The paper assesses how entrepreneurship affects knowledge economy (KE) in Africa. Design …/methodology/approach – Entrepreneurship is measured by indicators of starting, doing and ending business. The four dimensions of the World Bank’s index of KE …
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significant impact on development of informal farm entrepreneurship generally, but somewhat undermined rural young people in the … informal farm entrepreneurship and rural communities' debate in sub-Saharan Africa. It concludes that business has obligation …
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(AGSMEIS) in Nigeria. Its special focus is to investigate the impact of the AGSMEIS on youth entrepreneurship development in … research adds to the literature on youth entrepreneurship development's debate in developing countries. It concludes that … targeting the young people in AGSMEIS should form the foundation of public policy for entrepreneurship, poverty alleviation, and …
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