Among a number of the newly independent nations that have emerged from their former colonial status in the decades since World War II, it is becoming increasingly apparent that Western forms of economic and social organization are being bent to the service of the state. Because of their...

A strong consensus exists among analysts of the small business sector of developing economies that this sector is characterised by phenomenally high business mortality. Extant efforts at explaining this volatility have focused pre-eminently on economic factors. Such preoccupation with economic...