Similar Search Results

Non-farm entrepreneurship in rural Africa : patterns and determinants

Nagler, Paula; Naudé, Wim - 2014

We are the first to provide a comparative empirical analysis of non-farm entrepreneurship in rural Africa, using the World Bank's unique LSMSISA dataset. This dataset covers six countries over the period 2005 to 2012. We find that rural enterprises tend to be small, informal household...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010252632

Small-scale manufacturing and regional industrialization : the urban and regional development perspective

Uribe-Echevarría, Francisco - 1991

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000137343

Rural small-scale industries in Ghana's economic development : an agenda for research

Edusah, Sampson; Tribe, Michael A. - 1992

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000910759

Is small beautiful? : the organizational conditions for effective small-scale self-help development projects in rural Kenya

Barkan, Joel D. (contributor) - 1980

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000730661

Promoting Indigenous community economic development, entrepreneurship and SMEs in a rural context

McDonald, Chris - 2019

This paper establishes an analytical framework for understanding and assessing Indigenous economic development and well-being in a place-based context. It identifies the importance of flexibility in geographic scale for organising policies for Indigenous communities, development objectives that...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012132860

Business development and the growth of rural SMEs

Freshwater, David; Garcilazo-Corredera, José Enrique; … - 2019

The paper reviews the role of Small and Medium Size Enterprises (SMEs) as drivers of employment and economic growth in … development and identified lessons for national level policy that can help strengthen the performance of SMEs and enhance the … creation of new SMEs. This working paper focuses on four cases studies in Atlantic Canada, Quebec, Scotland and the United …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012132883

The impact of e-wallet on informal farm entrepreneurship development in rural Nigeria

Uduji, Joseph I.; Okolo-Obasi, Elda N.; Asongu, Simplice - 2018

Transforming agriculture from a largely subsistence enterprise to a profitable commercial venture is both a prerequisite and a driving force for accelerated development and sustainable growth in su b - Saharan Africa. The objective of this investigation is to assess the impact of the Federal...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011998667

What determines firms' decisions to formalize? : evidence from rural Indonesia

McCulloch, Neil; Schulze, Günther G.; Voss, Janina - 2010

In this paper we analyze the decision of small and micro firms to formalize, i.e. to obtain business and other licenses in rural Indonesia. We use the rural investment climate survey (RICS) that consists of non-farm rural enterprises, most of them microenterprises, and analyze the effect of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008699782

Business services in the globalizing African economies

Pedersen, Poul Ove - 1998

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013402943

Bedeutung der ländlichen Klein- und Mittelunternehmen für die Modernisierung Chinas

Li, Zhenjing; Dornberger, Utz - 2001

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013441025

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Next
Last