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Twenty years after the launch of market reforms, productive entrepreneurship and vibrant small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Ethiopia remain limited, the recent growth acceleration notwithstanding. This paper develops a model of entrepreneurial start ups in an economy with frictions in...
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With the year 2015 – the MDG finishing line – approaching, post-2015 goals as they impact Africa need to be firmed. The … promote shared prosperity in every society. We examine feasibility of these objectives for Sub-Saharan Africa, the world … rate, especially if in part achieved by lowering inequality, the Africa region would meaningfully contribute to the global …
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employment challenges in Swaziland, a small, land-locked country with one of the highest youth unemployment rates in Africa. The …
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With the year 2015 – the MDG finishing line – approaching, post-2015 goals as they impact Africa need to be firmed. The … promote shared prosperity in every society. We examine feasibility of these objectives for Sub-Saharan Africa, the world … rate, especially if in part achieved by lowering inequality, the Africa region would meaningfully contribute to the global …
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the first time to North Africa, the stock-flow approach to the real equilibrium exchange rate, this paper evaluates the … misalignments. Intra-regional trade – both with North Africa and the rest of the continent – together with greater orientation to …
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The global financial crisis has reiterated the need for Africa to build resilience to global output shocks. In this … have helped the East African Community (EAC) absorb the global output shocks. In contrast, the Southern Africa Custom Union …
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Since mid-2000s, Ethiopia has been one of the fastest growing countries in the world. However, productive entrepreneurship in high-value added activities has made limited contributions to this growth, in part because of a weak business environment. Moreover, the low-productive firms in the...
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The shortages of entrepreneurial skills have lowered search effectiveness of potential young entrepreneurs and the rate of youth start-ups. Our paper contributes to closing the gap in the entrepreneurship and development literature with a model of costly
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unemployment rates in Africa. The paper first documents the various labor market disadvantages faced by the Swazi youth, such as …
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