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Entrepreneurship and SME Management Across Africa : Context, Challenges, Cases
Achtenhagen, Leona (ed.); Brundin, Ethel (ed.) - 2016
personnel and environmental concerns. Entrepreneurship and SME Management Across Africa: Context, Challenges, Cases will be … -- Section IV: Commentary -- Chapter 13: Entrepreneurship and SME Management Across Africa: A perspective and a short review …This book focuses on issues related to entrepreneurship and SME management on the African continent by providing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012398005
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Every drop counts: Assessing aid for water and sanitation
Anand, P.B. - 2013
Water and sanitation sectors have been the 'natural' subjects of aid for several decades. However, these sectors also were among those most affected by changes in aid approaches and tools. The aim of this paper is to capture some of the complexity in assessing impact and effectiveness of aid in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319781
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Long Term Economic Development : Demand, Finance, Organization, Policy and Innovation in a Schumpeterian Perspective
Pyka, Andreas - 2013
Introduction -- Schumpeter's Core Works Revisited -- Back to Engel?- Technological Regimes and Demand Structure in the Evolution of the Pharmaceutical Industry -- Innovation and Demand in Industry Dynamics -- Production and Financial Linkages in Inter-Firm Networks -- Does History Matter?-...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014016803
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Historical origins of persistent inequality in Nigeria
Archibong, Belinda - 2016
Horizontal inequality by ethnic group has remained remarkably persistent for wealth, education, and access to certain services in Nigeria. While significant gains in the reduction of inequality and improvement in access have been made for more locally administered services, outcomes are stickier...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653973
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Rethinking the world of aid in the twenty first century
Heller, Peter S. - 2011
Many concerns can be raised about the effectiveness of current aid programmes to developing countries. The appropriateness of aid is particularly questionable when one considers the likely character of the challenges that the global economy will confront in 2025, as suggested by alternative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280120
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Aid and infrastructure financing: Emerging challenges with a focus on Africa
Addison, Tony; Anand, P. B. - 2012
, especially in Africa, the role of foreign aid in the future should be distinctly different. While aid will be required to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319797
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Impact Investing in Africa : A Guide to Sustainability for Investors, Institutions, and Entrepreneurs
Mungai, Edward - 2018
them. In this book for investors, institutions, entrepreneurs, and everyone interested in the economic future of Africa … continent and identify the most important opportunities for impact investment impacting the future of Africa available today and …1. Introduction -- 2. Doing business in Africa: what to consider -- 3. How does impact investing scale down to ordinary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012396977
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Re-inventing Africa's development : linking Africa to the Korean development model
Park, Jong-Dae - 2019
This open access book analyses the development problems of sub-Sahara Africa (SSA) from the eyes of a Korean diplomat … with knowledge of the economic growth Korea has experienced in recent decades. The author argues that Africa's development … Africa's problems are caused by a lack of leadership. In exploring an approach based on mind-set and nation-building, rather …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397021
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Developmental State Building : The Politics of Emerging Economies
Takagi, Yusuke (ed.); Kanchoochat, Veerayooth (ed.);  … - 2019
This open access book modifies and revitalizes the concept of the ‘developmental state’ to understand the politics of emerging economy through nuanced analysis on the roles of human agency in the context of structural transformation. In other words, there is a revived interest in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397033
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Paths to the Emerging State in Asia and Africa
Ōtsuka, Keijirō (ed.); Sugihara, Kaoru (ed.) - 2019
Transfer and Agricultural Development: A Comparative Study of Asia and Africa(Keijiro Otsuka) -- 3 Southeast Asia and …, Industrial Development, and Structural Transformation in Asia and Africa (Yuki Higuchi and Go Shimada) -- 10 Transformation of … Rural Economies in Asia and Africa(Jonna P. Estudillo, Elyzabeth F. Cureg, and Keijiro Otsuka) -- 11 Agricultural Market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397034