Township entrepreneurship, unemployment and economic development : myth or reality in Sub-Saharan African countries

dc.contributor.authorOppong, Clement
dc.contributor.authorMathibe, Motshedisi Sina
dc.date.accessioned2025-03-19T11:46:30Z
dc.date.available2025-03-19T11:46:30Z
dc.date.issued2024-05
dc.description.abstractThis study aims to perform a comparative analysis of the influence of township entrepreneurship on unemployment and economic development among the Francophone and Anglophone countries in sub-Saharan Africa. The study employed a descriptive and quantitative research design where a longitudinal data was sourced from the World Development Indicators (WDI) and World Bank Entrepreneurship databases on 12 and 9 Francophone and Anglophone countries respectively. A Fixed Effect panel regression model was employed to attain the objectives of the study. The findings of the study revealed that there is a significant negative effect of township entrepreneurship on unemployment; and also, township entrepreneurship has a positive significant effect on economic development. Both relationships were found to have insignificant differences between Anglophone and Francophone countries suggesting that the ability of township entrepreneurship to minimize the rate of unemployment and boost economic development is generic and irrespective of cultural and social differences. This study was anchored on the behavioral theory of social entrepreneurship to provide empirical contribution to existing literature.en_US
dc.description.departmentGordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS)en_US
dc.description.sdgSDG-08:Decent work and economic growthen_US
dc.description.sdgSDG-11:Sustainable cities and communitiesen_US
dc.description.urihttps://ijbed.org/en_US
dc.identifier.citationClement Oppong; Motshedisi Mathibe; Township entrepreneurship, Unemployment and Economic Development: Myth or Reality in Sub-Saharan African Countries, IJBED, Volume 12 Issue 01, 11 May 2024, https://doi.org/10.24052/IJBED/V012N01/ART-01.en_US
dc.identifier.issn2051-848X (print)
dc.identifier.issn2051-8498 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.24052/IJBED/V012N01/ART-01
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/101605
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherCentre for Business & Economic Researchen_US
dc.rights© The Author(s) 2024. Open Access. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.en_US
dc.subjectEconomic developmenten_US
dc.subjectTownship entrepreneurshipen_US
dc.subjectUnemploymenten_US
dc.subjectSDG-08: Decent work and economic growthen_US
dc.subjectSub-Saharan Africa (SSA)en_US
dc.subjectSDG-11: Sustainable cities and communitiesen_US
dc.titleTownship entrepreneurship, unemployment and economic development : myth or reality in Sub-Saharan African countriesen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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