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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 …
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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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Innovation networks for regional development : concepts, case studies, and agent-based models
Vermeulen, Ben (ed.); Paier, Manfred (ed.) - 2017
This book brings together original research on the role of networks in regional economic development and innovation. It presents a comprehensive framework synthesizing extant theories, a palette of real-world cases in the aerospace, automotive, life science, biotechnology and health care...
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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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Development strategies: Lessons from the experiences of South Korea, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam
Khan, Haider A. - 2010
This piece synthesizes the development strategies of Korea, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam and draws some relevant lessons. Using a complex adaptive systems approach, strategic openness, a set of heterodox macroeconomic policies, creation of institutions for productive investment in both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280091
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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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Governance for Structural Transformation in Africa
Elhiraika, Adam B. (ed.); Ibrahim, Gamal (ed.);  … - 2019
This book explores how better governance can help Africa to achieve structural transformation (understood to be the … different approaches to institutions and trade and industrial policies and structural transformation in Africa. The book makes … recommendations for a new approach to governance in Africa that can deliver the structural transformation that the continent needs for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397078
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The History of Business in Africa : Complex Discontinuity to Emerging Markets
Verhoef, Grietjie - 2017
Africa and Africas -- Networks of Exchange -- Business in New Markets Under New Masters -- Business in Independent … Africa -- Enter the Market: African Entrepreneurial Rebirth After 1980 -- Into the Global -- Conclusion: The Beginning of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397519
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Wage inequality in Africa
Johnson-Lans, Shirley (ed.) - 2017
This Palgrave Pivot features original research studies of wage inequality in African countries including South Africa …1. Introduction -- 2. Foreign Direct Investment and Racial Wage Inequality: Evidence from South Africa -- 3. The Urban … Wage Premium in Africa -- 4. Gender-Based Wage Differentials and Employment in Post-Apartheid South Africa, 1995-2004 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397980