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Promoting Entrepreneurship in Africa: Alternative Strategies and the Scope for Affirmative Action.

Developing countries have, in the last few decades, pursued a number of strategies to promote indigenous entrepreneurship. According to the author, Africa has followed basically two models - parallelism and partnership - in this respect. Reviewing the progress of efforts so far, the paper argues tha...

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Main Author: Thomas, Wolfgang H
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Journals of Entrepreneurship 1992
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Online Access:http://library.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui/handle/123456789/1772
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