Africa's Private Sector: What's Wrong with the Business Environment and What to Do about It

by Alan H. Gelb, Vijaya Ramachandran, Manju Kedia Shah, et al.

Book Overview

Why is business performance lagging in Africa? To provide answers, this volume focuses on the day-to-day problems that private sector managers and entrepreneurs there encounter. Through enterprise surveys conducted in several African countries, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, these businesspeople identify poor infrastructure--particularly the lack of a reliable source of power--as a huge constraint on private sector activity.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1933286288
• ISBN13: 9781933286280
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Center for Global Development
• Length: 110 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.8"