Young Entrepreneurs in Sub-Saharan Africa.

• Superior document: Routledge Spaces of Childhood and Youth Series
• Author: Gough, Katherine V.
• TeilnehmendeR: Langevang, Thilde.
• Place / Publishing House: London : : Taylor & Francis Group,, 2016.; Ã2016.
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Routledge Spaces of Childhood and Youth Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (293 pages)

Table of Contents

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- 1 Introduction: youth entrepreneurship in sub-Saharan Africa -- PART I National studies of youth entrepreneurship -- Introduction to Part I -- 2 Youth entrepreneurship trends and policies in Uganda -- 3 Youth entrepreneurship in Ghana: current trends and policies -- 4 Measuring and promoting youth entrepreneurship in Zambia -- Concluding comments to Part I -- PART II Youth entrepreneurship in urban settlements -- Introduction to Part II -- 5 Young entrepreneurs in Lusaka: overcoming constraints through ingenuity and social entrepreneurship -- 6 Youth entrepreneurship in Kampala: managing scarce resources in a challenging environment -- 7 Prospects and challenges of youth entrepreneurship in Nima-Maamobi, a low-income neighbourhood of Accra -- Concluding comments to Part II -- PART III Youth entrepreneurship in rural areas -- Introduction to Part III -- 8 Mobile rural youth in northern Ghana: combining near and distant opportunity spaces -- 9 Rural youth entrepreneurship in eastern Uganda -- 10 Rural youth in northern Zambia: straddling the rural-urban divide -- Concluding comments to Part III -- PART IV Youth entrepreneurship in specific sectors -- Introduction to Part IV -- 11 Young entrepreneurs in the mobile telephony sector in Ghana -- 12 Youth entrepreneurship in a small-scale gold mining settlement in Ghana -- 13 Young female entrepreneurs in Uganda: handicraft production as a livelihood strategy -- 14 Employment in the tourism industry: a pathway to entrepreneurship for Ugandan youth -- Concluding comments to Part IV -- PART V Stimulating youth entrepreneurship -- Introduction to Part V -- 15 Social capital among young entrepreneurs in Zambia.

16 Innovative approaches by Ugandan microfinance institutions to reach out to young entrepreneurs -- 17 Entrepreneurship education in Uganda: impact on graduate intentions to set up a business -- Concluding comments to Part V -- Index.