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Africa´s Private Sector: What´s Wrong with the Business Environment and What to Do About It
Manju K. Shah
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Description for Africa´s Private Sector: What´s Wrong with the Business Environment and What to Do About It
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 110 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1H; KCN; KJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 227.
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, ... Read more
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Center for Global Development United States
Number of pages
110
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Weight
210g
Number of Pages
110
Place of Publication
Washington, United States
ISBN
9781933286280
SKU
V9781933286280
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About Manju K. Shah
Vijaya Ramachandran , senior fellow at the Center for Global Development, USA, works on private sector development, entrepreneurship, and foreign direct investment and manages CGD's program on fragile states. Alan Gelb is the director of development in the Development Economics Vice Presidency at the World Bank and an expert on African economic issues. Manju Kedia Shah is an economist, working ... Read more
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