Small Enterprises Adjusting to Liberalization in Five African Countries, Parts 63-271This study incorporates data from comparable surveys across five African countries - Ghana, Malawi, Mali, Senegal, and Tanzania - to analyze how small and micro enterprises have been positively and negatively affected by policy liberalization schemes. Som |
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African countries average business environment constraints costs devaluation Development economic employment entrants entrepreneurs equipment exchange rate export growth finance five countries fixed exchange rate formal French franc Ghana Malawi Mali GHANA Micro Small Growing MSEs high proportion imported inputs incentives increased indicated industrial investment Kenya labor large firms liberalization licensing loan macroeconomic Major problem Malawi and Tanzania MALAWI MALI SENEGAL Mali and Senegal Mali's markets microenterprises and SSES MSEs in Ghana MSEs in Mali MSEs in Senegal MSEs in Tanzania P.O. Box page TABLE percent in Mali percent of firms percent of MSEs postreform periods prereform and postreform problem 00 problem Minor problem production proportion of MSEs Question/Response GHANA Micro raw materials regulatory relatively response sample SAPs Small All 36 Small All TANZANIA SSE owners structural adjustment programs Sub-Saharan Africa subsector substantial surveys TANZANIA Micro Small workers World Bank Zambia Zimbabwe
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