Young Entrepreneurs in Sub-Saharan Africa

This book presents conceptual, methodoligcal and empircal insights into the nature of youth-entrepeneurship in sub-Saharan Africa. It draws on qualitative and quantitative research to highlight the opportunities and challenges young people face in setting up and runing businesses. The book explores the nature of youth entrepensurship at the national level, in both urban and rural areas, in separate sectors, and the key factors that can affect youth entrepensurship, such as education, captial and networks. New inisghts are provided into the multi-faceted nature of youth entrepreneurship and the situation faced by many African youth today.