Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 23,751
Cover Image
Institutional Foundation of Trade and Industrial Policies in Africa
Adeolu, Adewole Musiliu - 2015
This chapter attempts to establish the fact that much of Africa's development problems have strong institutional roots …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013014352
Cover Image
Digital Divide, Globalization and Income Inequality in subSaharan African Countries : Analysing Cross-country Heterogeneity
Ndoya, Hermann; Asongu, Simplice - 2022
The aim of this paper is to analyse the impact of digital divide on income inequality in sub-Saharan Africa over the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014244456
Cover Image
Entrepreneurship, Education and the Fourth Industrial Revolution in Africa
Naudé, Wim - 2017
The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) is impacting on the industrialization options for Africa inter alia through … paper I set out the case for why Africa should industrialize. I then explore the opportunities and threats the 4IR pose for … Africa. Threats include job-losses and the re-shoring of manufacturing to advanced economies. Among the opportunities are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012952621
Cover Image
Brilliant Technologies and Brave Entrepreneurs : A New Narrative for African Manufacturing
Naudé, Wim - 2018
In this paper I argue that the manufacturing sector still has an important role to play in Africa's development … Africa; (iii) describe the resurgence of technological start-up entrepreneurship in Africa and (iv) call for policy support …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012906527
Cover Image
Entrepreneurship, education and the fourth industrial revolution in Africa
Naudé, Wim - 2017
The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) is impacting on the industrialization options for Africa inter alia through … paper I set out the case for why Africa should industrialize. I then explore the opportunities and threats the 4IR pose for … Africa. Threats include job-losses and the re-shoring of manufacturing to advanced economies. Among the opportunities are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011694809
Cover Image
Brilliant technologies and brave entrepreneurs : a new narrative for African manufacturing
Naudé, Wim - 2018
In this paper I argue that the manufacturing sector still has an important role to play in Africa's development … Africa; (iii) describe the resurgence of technological start-up entrepreneurship in Africa and (iv) call for policy support …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011949049
Cover Image
Urbanized and savvy : which African firms are making the most of mobile money?
Ackah, Charles; Hanley, Aoife; Hecker, Lars; Kodom, Michael - 2024
Our analysis of over 500 Ghanaian firms sheds light, for the first time, on how certain firms managed to extract value from mobile money. Our regressions point to the usefulness of this form of cashless payments in stabilizing sales during the COVID pandemic. Perhaps the most important message...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015063472
Cover Image
Urbanized and savvy - which African firms are making the most of mobile money?
Ackah, Charles; Hanley, Aoife; Hecker, Lars; Kodom, Michael - 2024
Our analysis of over 500 Ghanaian firms sheds light, for the first time, on how certain firms managed to extract value from mobile money. Our regressions point to the usefulness of this form of cashless payments in stabilizing sales during the COVID pandemic. Perhaps the most important message...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015079847
Cover Image
Exploring patterns in ICT growth and development in Africa : a Kohonen Map Analysis
Soremekun, Olumayokun; Malgwi, Charles A. - In: The review of regional studies : a joint publ. of the … 43 (2013) 2/3, pp. 175-190
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010382797
Cover Image
When the social networks and internet come to the rescue of entrepreneurs : the problematic of crowdfunding in Africa
Omenguélé, René Guy; Mbouolang, Yimpi Cédric - In: Journal of entrepreneurial finance : JEF ; official … 24 (2022) 1, pp. 44-66
the crowdfunding market in sub-Saharan Africa by 2025. The objective of this paper is to make an inventory of Crowdfunding … activities in Africa, region with a most restrictive access to bank loan by SMEs, start-ups and young entrepreneurs. It appears … from the economic and socio-cultural realities that Africa is a region with more potential catalyst for crowdfunding …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012990141