Informal entrepreneurship and cross-border trade between Zimbabwe and South Africa / / Abel Chikanda and Godfrey Tawodzera

• Autore: Chikanda Abel
• Pubblicazione: Cape Town, South Africa : , : Southern African Migration Programme (SAMP), , 2017; ©2017
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (47 pages) : illustrations, tables, graphs
• Disciplina: 330
• Soggetto topico: Informal sector (Economics) - South Africa; Informal sector (Economics) - Zimbabwe
• Soggetto geografico: South Africa Commerce Zimbabwe
• Persona (resp. second.): TawodzeraGodfrey
• Note generali: Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Executive summary -- Introduction -- Research methodology -- Profile of ICBT entrepreneurs -- Entrepreneurial motivation -- Financing the ICBT enterprise -- Travelling to Johannesburg -- Selling goods in Zimbabwe -- Contributions to the Zimbabwean economy -- Contributions to the South African economy -- Business problems and challenges -- Conclusion.
• Sommario/riassunto: Zimbabwe has witnessed the rapid expansion of informal cross-border trading (ICBT) with neighbouring countries over the past two decades. Beginning in the mid-1990s when the country embarked on its Economic Structural Adjustment Programme (ESAP), a large number of people were forced into informal employment through worsening economic conditions and the decline in formal sector jobs.
• Titolo autorizzato: Informal entrepreneurship and cross-border trade between Zimbabwe and South Africa
• ISBN: 1-920596-31-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910792750503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Migration policy series ; ; Number 74.