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Item specifics
- Condition
- Binding
- Paperback
- Weight
- 0 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- No
- ISBN
- 9781933286280
- Subject Area
- Business & Economics
- Publication Name
- Africa's Private Sector : What's Wrong with the Business Environment and What to Do about It
- Publisher
- Center for Global Development
- Item Length
- 8.8 in
- Subject
- International / General, Government & Business
- Publication Year
- 2009
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.5 in
- Item Weight
- 7.1 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.9 in
- Number of Pages
- 110 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Center for Global Development
ISBN-10
1933286288
ISBN-13
9781933286280
eBay Product ID (ePID)
71817307
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
110 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Africa's Private Sector : What's Wrong with the Business Environment and What to Do about It
Publication Year
2009
Subject
International / General, Government & Business
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Business & Economics
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.5 in
Item Weight
7.1 Oz
Item Length
8.8 in
Item Width
5.9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2008-044171
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
338.96/05
Synopsis
Why is business performance lagging in Africa? To provide answers, this volume focuses on the day-to-day problems that private sector managers and entrepreneurs there encounter. Through enterprise surveys conducted in several African countries, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, these businesspeople identify poor infrastructure--particularly the lack of a reliable source of power--as a huge constraint on private sector activity. Politics also plays a key role in limiting the success of African businesses. Many countries there have private sectors that are ethnically segmented or dominated by ethnic minorities or both. Segmented networks in already sparse economic environments limit competition, encourage an ambivalent attitude toward facilitating a good business environment, and constrain the growth of firms outside the dominant network. Consequently, Africa has yet to see the emergence of a broad-based business class. Africa's Private Sector identifies several solutions to address both the infrastructure and political economy constraints hampering business growth in Africa., Why is business performance lagging in Africa? To provide answers, this volume focuses on the day-to-day problems that private sector managers and entrepreneurs there encounter., Why is the private sector yet to take off in much sub-Saharan Africa? Drawing on a unique set of enterprise surveys, Vijaya Ramachandran and her co-authors identify the biggest obstacles: inadequate infrastructure (especially unreliable electricity and crumbing roads) and burdensome regulation. They then show how ethnic minorities dominate the private sector in many countries, inhibiting competition and demands for a better business environment, and thus impeding the emergence of an entrepreneurial middle class. Based on this careful diagnosis, the authors suggest investing in infrastructure and reforming regulation to lower the cost of doing business, and increasing the access to education of a broader-based business class that crosses ethnic divides. Book jacket., Why is business performance lagging in Africa? To provide answers, this volume focuses on the day-to-day problems that private sector managers and entrepreneurs there encounter. Through enterprise surveys conducted in several African countries, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, these business people identify poor infrastructure --particularly the lack of a reliable source of power --as a huge constraint on private sector activity. Politics also plays a key role in limiting the success of African businesses. Many countries there have private sectors that are ethnically segmented or dominated by ethnic minorities or both. Segmented networks in already sparse economic environments limit competition, encourage an ambivalent attitude toward facilitating a good business environment, and constrain the growth of firms outside the dominant network. Consequently, Africa has yet to see the emergence of a broad-based business class. Africa's Private Sector identifies several solutions to address both the infrastructure and political economy constraints hampering business growth in Africa.
LC Classification Number
HD4338.R36 2008
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