Young entrepreneurs in Sub-Saharan Africa / / edited by Katherine V. Gough and Thilde Langevang

• Pubblicazione: Taylor & Francis, 2017; Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (304 pages)
• Disciplina: 338/.0408350967; 338.0408350967
• Soggetto topico: Entrepreneurship - Employment - Africa, Sub-Saharan; Young businesspeople - Africa, Sub-Saharan; Youth - Africa, Sub-Saharan; Small business - Africa, Sub-Saharan
• Soggetto non controllato: youth employment; africa; young businesspeople; entrepeneurship; sub-saharan; Adolescence; Ghana; Handicraft; Uganda; Zambia
• Altri autori: GoughKatherine V. <1963-> LangevangThilde
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1 Introduction: youth entrepreneurship in sub-Saharan Africa; PART I National studies of youth entrepreneurship; Introduction to Part I; 2 Youth entrepreneurship trends and policies in Uganda; 3 Youth entrepreneurship in Ghana: current trends and policies; 4 Measuring and promoting youth entrepreneurship in Zambia; Concluding comments to Part I; PART II Youth entrepreneurship in urban settlements; Introduction to Part II ; 5 Young entrepreneurs in Lusaka: overcoming constraints through ingenuity and social entrepreneurship6 Youth entrepreneurship in Kampala: managing scarce resources in a challenging environment; 7 Prospects and challenges of youth entrepreneurship in Nima-Maamobi, a low-income neighbourhood of Accra; Concluding comments to Part II; PART III Youth entrepreneurship in rural areas; Introduction to Part III; 8 Mobile rural youth in northern Ghana: combining near and distant opportunity spaces; 9 Rural youth entrepreneurship in eastern Uganda ; 10 Rural youth in northern Zambia: straddling the rural-urban divideConcluding comments to Part III; PART IV Youth entrepreneurship in specific sectors; Introduction to Part IV; 11 Young entrepreneurs in the mobile telephony sector in Ghana; 12 Youth entrepreneurship in a small-scale gold mining settlement in Ghana; 13 Young female entrepreneurs in Uganda: handicraft production as a livelihood strategy; 14 Employment in the tourism industry: a pathway to entrepreneurship for Ugandan youth; Concluding comments to Part IV; PART V Stimulating youth entrepreneurship; Introduction to Part V ; 15 Social capital among young entrepreneurs in Zambia16 Innovative approaches by Ugandan microfinance institutions to reach out to young entrepreneurs; 17 Entrepreneurship education in Uganda: impact on graduate intentions to set up a business; Concluding comments to Part V; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: rs, Professor Ernest Aryeetey, Professor Craig Jeffrey, and Professor Peter Rosa, along with all the other participants, provided useful feedback and encouraged us to proceed with presenting the key project findings in book form. A string of people provided support for the project and the book along the way. At the host institution – the Department of Geography, University of Copenhagen – the untiring assistance of Dorthe Hallin with the accounts was invaluable, and in the closing stages Kent Pørksen kindly helped produce the maps at short notice. Wisdom Kalenga and Cecilia Gregersen both spent time at CBS providing assistance with the data analysis and conference support. Maheen Pracha did an excellent job editing the entire manuscript while Jo Woods assisted in the final checking and layout. Thanks are also due to Faye Leerink at Routledge for seeing the potential of the book and for agreeing to allow it to be subsequently published in sub-Saharan Africa, which we hope will ensure it is also widely read there. As all of the project participants spent lengthy periods of time in the field and/ or visiting other academic institutions, many families have had to cope with these absences. We thank them for their forbearance and for supporting the respective team members in their studies and travels. Hopefully they feel it was worthwhile in the end. While producing this book has been a major effort, it marks the end of an era that started back in November 2008 when we first started devising the project in response to a call from FFU for projects on youth employment. We are extremely grateful to all of the “YEMP family”, as the project team came to be known, for their dedication to the project and for making it such a rewarding and fun experience, and look forward to future collaboration
• Titolo autorizzato: Young entrepreneurs in Sub-Saharan Africa
• ISBN: 1-317-54837-X; 1-315-73025-1; 1-317-54836-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910213854903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge Spaces of Childhood and Youth Series