Rural entrepreneurship in Africa: do spatial spillovers matter?
University of Ghana Lecturer Dr. Nkechi Owoo and MSM’s Dean-Director Wim Naudé presented a paper on “Non-Farm Enterprise Performance and Spatial Autocorrelation in Rural Africa: Evidence from Ethiopia and Nigeria” at the first Annual Bank Conference on Africa (ABCA) held in Paris, France, on 23 and 24 June. In their paper they show that location matters for the performance of enterprises in rural Africa: being closer to highly productive enterprises raises other enterprises productivity, but being closer to highly productive farms, may not…
Dr. Owoo also visited MSM to work with Professor Wim Naudé on African rural entrepreneurship in the context of the World Bank’s ‘African Agriculture: Telling Facts from Myths” project.
Further reading
Non-farm entrepreneurship in Africa: telling facts from myths
