This study examines the firm level drivers of employment growth in East Africa in which they
are categorized as firm specific, entrepreneur specific and business environment …

Using firm-level data from Kenyan manufacturing firms, we evaluate the hotly debated and
popular view that small firms create the most jobs and are the primary source of employment …

Entrepreneurship is critical to job creation and economic growth. Unemployment in South
Africa is presently at about 25 percent. The formal sector is unable to provide adequate …

Using survey data from over 60,000 enterprises in 104 countries (including 11,000
enterprises in 34 Sub-Saharan African countries), the paper finds average firm-level …

The study investigates whether economic growth affects the impact of entrepreneurship
development on unemployment reduction in SSA. Adopted dynamic panel data method of …

This paper estimates the association between innovation and employment growth among
manufacturing firms in Africa. The paper uses a cross-sectional World Bank Enterprise …

In the past decades, the Nigerian economy had experienced substantial economic growth
before the economy slipped into recession in 2015. It is highly paradoxical that economic …

Background: South Africa has made significant progress since the dawn of democracy in
1994. It registered positive economic growth rates and its real gross domestic product (GDP) …

This paper seeks to analyze the factors affecting the growth of enterprises in the Philippines,
as measured from the expansion of employment. The paper contributes to the literature in …

Background: How economies generate productive jobs and how labour is absorbed are
important issues for development. This request is to draw out evidence and lessons from the …