Young Entrepreneurs in Sub-Saharan Africa
This book is the outcome of the research project ?Youth and employment: the role of entrepreneurship in African economies? (YEMP) which ran from October 2009 until June 2014. We are very grateful to the Consultative Research Committee for Development Research (FFU) of the Danish Ministry of Foreign...
| Formato: | Electrónico |
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Routledge
2017.
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| Colección: | OAPEN Library.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
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| Sumario: | This book is the outcome of the research project ?Youth and employment: the role of entrepreneurship in African economies? (YEMP) which ran from October 2009 until June 2014. We are very grateful to the Consultative Research Committee for Development Research (FFU) of the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Danida) for providing the funding (project number 09-059KU) that made 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 invaluable support. The project country coordinators, Dr George Owusu at the University of Ghana, Rebecca Namatovu at Makerere University Business School (MUBS), and Dr Francis Chigunta at the University of Zambia, all competently lead their respective 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 people who welcomed us into their homes and workplaces, and generously gave us their time and shared their experiences with us. To all of them, and the adults whom we also interviewed, we owe the greatest thanks. The project supported six African PhD students who conducted their studies at their home universities but spent six months studying in Copenhagen. Many members of the YEMP team played key roles supervising them, either officially or unofficially, with thanks especially due to Dr S{rcedil}ren Jeppesen at Copenhagen Business School (CBS) and Professor Paul W. K. Yankson, Dr George Owusu and Dr Robert D. Osei at the University of Ghana. In addition, at the University of Zambia, Dr Augustus Kapungwe of the Department of Population Studies supervised the two Zambian PhD students, while at MUBS first the late Dr Warren Byabashaija followed by Professor Waswa Balunywa provided supervision for the two Ugandan PhD students. We are also very grateful to the Danish Fellowship Centre (DFC) for arranging the visits of the PhD students to Denmark and for providing them with an excellent environment in which to live. The Department of Geography, University of Copenhagen, and the Department of Intercultural Communication and Management, CBS, kindly provided the students with office space and ICT support. This conducive environment contributed to the PhD students forming a very supportive group that played a major This book is the outcome of the research project ?Youth and employment: the role of entrepreneurship in African economies? (YEMP) which ran from October 2009 until June 2014. We are very grateful to the Consultative Research Committee for Development Research (FFU) of the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Danida) for providing the funding (project number 09-059KU) that made 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 invaluable support. The project country coordinators, Dr George Owusu at the University of Ghana, Rebecca Namatovu at Makerere University Business School (MUBS), and Dr Francis Chigunta at the University of Zambia, all competently lead their respective 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 people who welcomed us into their homes and workplaces, and generously gave us their time and shared their experiences with us. To all of them, and the adults whom we also interviewed, we owe the greatest thanks. The project supported six African PhD students who conducted their studies at their home universities but spent six months studying in Copenhagen. Many members of the YEMP team played key roles supervising them, either officially or unofficially, with thanks especially due to Dr S{rcedil}ren Jeppesen at Copenhagen Business School (CBS) and Professor Paul W. K. Yankson, Dr George Owusu and Dr Robert D. Osei at the University of Ghana. In addition, at the University of Zambia, Dr Augustus Kapungwe of the Department of Population Studies supervised the two Zambian PhD students, while at MUBS first the late Dr Warren Byabashaija followed by Professor Waswa Balunywa provided supervision for the two Ugandan PhD students. We are also very grateful to the Danish Fellowship Centre (DFC) for arranging the visits of the PhD students to Denmark and for providing them with an excellent environment in which to live. The Department of Geography, University of Copenhagen, and the Department of Intercultural Communication and Management, CBS, kindly provided the students with office space and ICT support. This conducive environment contributed to the PhD students forming a very supportive group that played a major This book is the outcome of the research project ?Youth and employment: the role of entrepreneurship in African economies? (YEMP) which ran from October 2009 until June 2014. We are very grateful to the Consultative Research Committee for Development Research (FFU) of the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Danida) for providing the funding (project number 09-059KU) that made 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 invaluable support. The project country coordinators, Dr George Owusu at the University of Ghana, Rebecca Namatovu at Makerere University Business School (MUBS), and Dr Francis Chigunta at the University of Zambia, all competently lead their respective 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 people who welcomed us into their homes and workplaces, and generously gave us their time and shared their experiences with us. To all of them, and the adults whom we also interviewed, we owe the greatest thanks. The project supported six African PhD students who conducted their studies at their home universities but spent six months studying in Copenhagen. Many members of the YEMP team played key roles supervising them, either officially or unofficially, with thanks especially due to Dr S{rcedil}ren Jeppesen at Copenhagen Business School (CBS) and Professor Paul W. K. Yankson, Dr George Owusu and Dr Robert D. Osei at the University of Ghana. In addition, at the University of Zambia, Dr Augustus Kapungwe of the Department of Population Studies supervised the two Zambian PhD students, while at MUBS first the late Dr Warren Byabashaija followed by Professor Waswa Balunywa provided supervision for the two Ugandan PhD students. We are also very grateful to the Danish Fellowship Centre (DFC) for arranging the visits of the PhD students to Denmark and for providing them with an excellent environment in which to live. The Department of Geography, University of Copenhagen, and the Department of Intercultural Communication and Management, CBS, kindly provided the students with office space and ICT support. This conducive environment contributed to the PhD students forming a very supportive group that played a major role in almost all of them succeeding in completing their PhDs, without doubt one of the project?s major achievements and a core part of this book. Many of the chapters in this book were first presented either at our yearly workshops held in the project countries or by YEMP team members at our ?International Conference on Entrepreneurship and Employment in the Global South? held in Copenhagen in June 2013. Our excellent keynote speakers, Professor Ernest Aryeetey, Professor Craig Jeffrey, and Professor Peter Rosa, along with all the other participants, provided useful feedback and encouraged us to proceed with presenting the key project findings in book form. A string of people provided support for the project and the book along the way. At the host institution ? the Department of Geography, University of Copenhagen ? the untiring assistance of Dorthe Hallin with the accounts was invaluable, and in the closing stages Kent P{rcedil}rksen kindly helped produce the maps at short notice. Wisdom Kalenga and Cecilia Gregersen both spent time at CBS providing assistance with the data analysis and conference support. Maheen Pracha did an excellent job editing the entire manuscript while Jo Woods assisted in the final checking and layout. Thanks are also due to Faye Leerink at Routledge for seeing the potential of the book and for agreeing to allow it to be subsequently published in sub-Saharan Africa, which we hope will ensure it is also widely read there. As all of the project participants spent lengthy periods of time in the field and/ or visiting other academic institutions, many families have had to cope with these absences. We thank them for their forbearance and for supporting the respective team members in their studies and travels. Hopefully they feel it was worthwhile in the end. While producing this book has been a major effort, it marks the end of an era that started back in November 2008 when we first started devising the project in response to a call from FFU for projects on youth employment. We are extremely grateful to all of the ?YEMP family?, as the project team came to be known, for their dedication to the project and for making it such a rewarding and fun experience, and look forward to future collaboration. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 recurso electrónico |
| Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 9781138844599 9781138704930 9781315730257 |
