Beyond necessity and opportunity entrepreneurship: motivations and aspirations of young entrepreneurs in Uganda.
Enhancing the private sector, and especially entrepreneurship, has become a key feature of development policy in recent years. In many African countries, entrepreneurship is promoted as a way to solve the youth unemployment crisis, but little is known about the experiences of young entrepreneurs. Th...
| Publicado en: | International Development Planning Review Vol. 34; no. 4; pp. 339 - 360 |
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