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agriculture and focus on the literature on entrepreneurship in Africa's structural transformation. I present a conceptual model to …African agriculture's importance for sustainable development is well appreciated. Indeed, recent years have seen a … physical resources across occupations and space, and without which agriculture and industrial development, and hence structural …
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(urbanisation) is the outcome of the activities of entrepreneurs. Second, I provide a stylized overview of entrepreneurship and … co-evolution of entrepreneurship and cities. First, I provide a stylized model of development wherein the rise of cities …Entrepreneurship, being largely an urban phenomenon, co-evolves over time with cities. While this relationship is like …
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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. …
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-based strategies exemplified under the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP). … agriculture therein, and the pace of structural transformation in Africa over the last 50 years. The evolution has involved …. Government intervention in favour of industrialization in the 1960s-1970s resulted in the neglect of agriculture, poor growth …
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Agriculture renaissance means the renewed understanding and recommitment to the fundamental role of agriculture in the … development process. Operationally it implies different approaches at the country level based on the stage of development. For the … least developed countries of the world, it could mean re-engaging agriculture's potential as a driver of overall economic …
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We study the effect of entrepreneurship and its allocation between necessity and opportunity entrepreneurship on three … and non-monetary wellbeing to entrepreneurial allocation. Using data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor we establish … that opportunity entrepreneurship may contribute towards national wellbeing and that better wellbeing in turn may stimulate …
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Developing and emerging economies have high entrepreneurship rates and relatively many small firms. There is enormous … heterogeneity among these firms and entrepreneurs. This paper presents a simple occupational choice model that captures motives for … entrepreneurship at both edges of the size distribution. The model is then used to analyse the effects of productivity growth …
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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 … start-up entrepreneurship. In this light I (i) show why manufacturing is vital for African economies, (ii) critically …
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