Special report | Size matters
Africa has too many businesses, too little business
Being your own boss is not the best strategy
African policymakers love to champion their continent’s entrepreneurs. For Paul Kagame, Rwanda’s president, small and medium enterprises are the “backbone of Africa’s economy”. “We must support the youth to go beyond looking for jobs,” says Akinwumi Adesina, the head of the African Development Bank (afdb).
This article appeared in the Special report section of the print edition under the headline “Too many, too little”
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