Through a range of examples of best practice from within the field, this text evaluates, measures and reviews the costs and benefits of small enterprise development programmes. The authors show that it is possible to measure and compare the costs and benefits of small enterprise development...

Three of sub-Saharan Africa’s central economic realities motivate this study. First, agriculture is the most important sector in most African economies, on average accounting for nearly one-fourth of GDP. Second, the private sector is increasingly active in transforming African agriculture and...