Although non-farm enterprises are ubiquitous in rural Sub-Saharan Africa, little is yet known about their productivity …, and location matter for labor productivity in rural Africa, and that policy decisions tackling the shortcomings could …

conclude that policies to support young entrepreneurs in rural Africa should not only focus on creating conditions that attract …Africa is not only the poorest and most rural continent, it is also the most youthful continent in terms of population … understanding of rural non-farm entrepreneurship, particularly with regard to the role of young adults in this sector. This paper …

We are the first to provide a comparative empirical analysis of non-farm entrepreneurship in rural Africa, using the … variables show consistency across the sample, we also find much heterogeneity, suggesting that rural entrepreneurship is also a … response to country-level circumstances and policies. Although more than 50 years have passed since rural development was …

organised toward technological development. This paper reflects upon the role of different organisations as knowledge brokers in … research with policy-making and economic development, particularly in an African context. …

requirement now is that future industrial policy ought to be a nuanced partnership between entrepreneurs and the state. In this … evolving, and that it depends on the stage of development of a particular country. …

The productivity of non-farm enterprises in rural Africa may be associated with the productivity of other spatially … the best of our knowledge, that the productivity of rural non-farm enterprises in Africa has been studied in this way. …

This paper addresses issues relevant to a critical problem in economic development: how to get rapid pro-poor economic … growth in poor rural areas in Africa and South Asia where most of the world’s dollar a day poor live. It examines constraints … to the development of coordinated exchange systems in poor rural areas, focusing on the core problem of thin markets and …

Entrepreneurship literature (Parker 2004) has rarely considered spatial location as a micro-determinant of occupational …