Non-Farm Entrepreneurship in Rural Africa: Patterns and Determinants
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Keywords
entrepreneurship; rural development; Sub-Saharan Africa; informal sector; labour markets; small business; SMEs;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- Q12 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Micro Analysis of Farm Firms, Farm Households, and Farm Input Markets
- O13 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Agriculture; Natural Resources; Environment; Other Primary Products
- O55 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Africa
- M13 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - New Firms; Startups
- J43 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Agricultural Labor Markets
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AFR-2014-03-15 (Africa)
- NEP-AGR-2014-03-15 (Agricultural Economics)
- NEP-ENT-2014-03-15 (Entrepreneurship)
- NEP-IUE-2014-03-15 (Informal and Underground Economics)
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