Enterprise in Africa
Between poverty and growth
Internationally, donors are increasing their emphasis on poverty-focused policies and on the notion of pro-poor growth. Attempts to reformulate policies and reshape practices so that they rework the balance between a focus on poverty and a focus on growth bring small and microenterprises on to the centre stage of development debates. Yet these enterprises are seen, variously, as engines of growth, as refuges for the poor, and as signs of economic failure. This book is concerned to revisit key elements of the debate about small and microenterprises through the lens of the current poverty-growth debate and in the specific context of Africa. Leading practitioners, academics and policymakers examine the evidence from across a range of disciplines to ask a series of crucial questions: * Is the macroeconomic climate a break on small enterprise development? * Are small enterprises, and policies and programmes to support them, succeeding? * Does education make a difference to enterprise performance?
Published: 1999
Pages: 256
eBook: 9781780440774
Paperback: 9781853394782
| FOREWORD by George Foulkes | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| PREFACE | |||
| AUTHORS' BIOGRAPHIES | |||
| v | |||
| vii | |||
| . . . | |||
| Vlll | |||
| Introduction 1 | |||
| Enterprise in Africa: new contexts; renewed challenges 1 | |||
| SIMON McGRATH AND KENNETH KING | |||
| PART 1 Micro-enterprises, Macro-perspectives 13 | |||
| 1 Have Africa's economies turned the corner? 13 | |||
| TONY KILLICK | |||
| 2 Developmental states and small enterprises 3 3 | |||
| THANDIKA MKANDA WIRE | |||
| 3 Gender, property rights and trade: constraints to Africa growth 48 | |||
| SUSAN JOEKES | |||
| PART 2 Small and Micro-enterprises and the Development Agenda 61 | |||
| 4 MSEs tackle both poverty and growth (but in differing | |||
| proportions) 61 | |||
| DONALD C. MEAD | |||
| 5 Micro-enterprises in West Africa 7 1 | |||
| JACQUES CHARMES | |||
| 6 Small enterprise development in post-apartheid South Africa 83 | |||
| CHRISTIAN M. ROGERSON | |||
| 7 Inherent gender inequities in small and micro-enterprise | |||
| development in rural Africa 9 5 | |||
| FRA VON MASS0 W | |||
| 8 Enterprise development in Africa: strategies for impact | |||
| and growth 107 | |||
| GEORGE MANU | |||
| PART 3 Collaboration Between Enterprises 121 | |||
| 9 Do SMEs network for growth? 121 | |||
| ABIGAIL BA RR | |||
| i0 Enterprise clusters in Africa: linkages for growth and | |||
| development 132 | |||
| DOROTHY McCORMlCK | |||
| 11 Trading agents and other producer services in African | |||
| industrialization and globalization 1 44 | |||
| POUL OVE PEDERSEN | |||
| 12 MSE associations and enterprise promotion in Africa 156 | |||
| HANS CHRISTIAAN HAAN | |||
| PART 4 Learning to Grow: SMEs, Skills and Technology 169 | |||
| 13 Technology, NGOs and small enterprise: securing livelihoods | |||
| through technical change 169 | |||
| ANDY JEANS | |||
| 14 Competences and other factors affecting the small enterprise | |||
| sector in Ibadan, Nigeria 179 | |||
| SUSANNA ADAM | |||
| 15 Reshaping vocational training: hopeful signs from a Ghanaian | |||
| experience 191 | |||
| LAWRENCE A. HONN Y | |||
| 16 The role and potential of technical and vocational education | |||
| in formal education systems in Africa 202 | |||
| BONA VENTURE WANJALA KERRE | |||
| 17 Learning to grow? The importance of education and training | |||
| for small and micro-enterprise development 21 1 | |||
| SIMON McGRATH AND KENNETH KING | |||
| BIBLIOGRAPHY 223 |
Kenneth King Kenneth King is Director of the Centre of African Studies and Professor of International and Comparative Education at the University of Edinburgh. He has worked for many years on international education and training, the African small enterprise sector and aid policy.
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