Young Entrepreneurs in Sub-Saharan Africa

This book is the outcome of the research project ?Youth and employment: therole of entrepreneurship in African economies? (YEMP) which ran from October2009 until June 2014. We are very grateful to the Consultative Research Committeefor Development Research (FFU) of the Danish Ministry of ForeignAffa...
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This book is the outcome of the research project ?Youth and employment: therole of entrepreneurship in African economies? (YEMP) which ran from October2009 until June 2014. We are very grateful to the Consultative Research Committeefor Development Research (FFU) of the Danish Ministry of ForeignAffairs (Danida) for providing the funding (project number 09-059KU) thatmade this collaborative and interdisciplinary research possible.The project involved participants from five institutions located in four countries? Denmark, Ghana, Uganda, and Zambia ? all of which provided invaluablesupport. The project country coordinators, Dr George Owusu at the Universityof Ghana, Rebecca Namatovu at Makerere University Business School (MUBS),and Dr Francis Chigunta at the University of Zambia, all competently lead theirrespective teams. In the field we were assisted by numerous research assistants,all of whom did an excellent job of guiding and translating where necessary.This book would not have been possible, though, without all the young peoplewho welcomed us into their homes and workplaces, and generously gave us theirtime and shared their experiences with us. To all of them, and the adults whomwe also interviewed, we owe the greatest thanks.The project supported six African PhD students who conducted their studiesat their home universities but spent six months studying in Copenhagen. Manymembers of the YEMP team played key roles supervising them, either officiallyor unofficially, with thanks especially due to Dr Søren Jeppesen at CopenhagenBusiness School (CBS) and Professor Paul W. K. Yankson, Dr George Owusuand Dr Robert D. Osei at the University of Ghana. In addition, at the Universityof Zambia, Dr Augustus Kapungwe of the Department of Population Studiessupervised the two Zambian PhD students, while at MUBS first the late DrWarren Byabashaija followed by Professor Waswa Balunywa provided supervisionfor the two Ugandan PhD students. We are also very grateful to theDanish Fellowship Centre (DFC) for arranging the visits of the PhD students toDenmark and for providing them with an excellent environment in which to live.The Department of Geography, University of Copenhagen, and the Departmentof Intercultural Communication and Management, CBS, kindly provided the studentswith office space and ICT support. This conducive environment contributedto the PhD students forming a very supportive group that played a major This book is the outcome of the research project ?Youth ... Ausführliche Beschreibung

Format:	E-Book
Sprache:	Englisch

Erschienen:	New York: Routledge ; 2017

Rechteinformationen:	Open Access Creative Commons ; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

Schlagwörter:	Ownership & organization of enterprises Ownership and organization of enterprises

Umfang:	1 Online-Ressource (1 electronic resource (272 p.))

Reihe:	Routledge spaces of childhood and youth series

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ISBN:	978-1-138-70493-0 978-1-315-73025-7 978-1-138-84459-9

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