The Zimbabwe economy reached a peak in 1997 when the Gross Domestic Product rose (GDP) to Z$25 billion (1990 dollars) and exports exceeded US$3.4 billion. Employment was above 1.4 million. Since the late 1990s, with the political crisis caused by the land reform, there has been accelerating...

During the last half century, the economic performance of the developing world has been far from uniform. Developing countries were polarised into those that made great progress in catching up and those that were mired in stagnation. Many African countries belong to the second group. Therefore,...

Purpose – The paper investigates the roles played by East Asians professionals in the United States and Europe during the 1960s and 1970s in promoting delocalization and entrepreneurship in their respective countries. Design/methodology/approach – The approach used to collect data was...

In essence, the Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurship series is an umbrella of annual reports that measures the United States entrepreneurship across national, state, and metro levels. Rather than focusing on inputs, the Kauffman Index focuses primarily on entrepreneurial outputs, the actual...

Business growth is a process of adaptation and development that occurs in the business cycle of an organisation, and is an increase in the size or scale of operations of a firm usually accompanied by increase in its resources and output. In addition, ‘growth strategy’ refers to a strategic...

The problem of poverty alleviation and unemployment remain the primary concerns of the government of the African National Congress (ANC) since 1994. This article aims to profile some official government initiatives to tackling unemployment among black peoples. The article posits a strategic...

The process of entrepreneurship is often categorized as opportunity or necessity driven. While the former represents a profitable opportunity as perceived by a potential entrepreneur, the latter in the contrary is associated with entrepreneurship as a last resort, because of any impossibility of...

The success and prosperity of any country, developed or underdeveloped, is strictly and directly tied to the performance of its private, social, and public sectors, in separation or in combination. Public entrepreneurship can be conceived as the emergence and growth of new formal organizations,...

Purpose – The study investigates some of the interventions which have been introduced by the Cameroonian government to support entrepreneurship and job creation and explore the challenges these interventions face, namely policy development, operational and pedagogic...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to gauge the impact of entrepreneurship training of students in Cameroon. In order to achieve the above, an empirical study was conducted in one of the main higher learning institution where entrepreneurial courses were first launched in Cameroon. The...