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This book investigates Ethiopia's entrepreneurial ecosystem, assessing how entrepreneurship and small business development is being fostered, and identifying gaps and opportunities for further positive change.
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Part I Foundations and Conceptual Frameworks 1. Introduction 2. Basic Definition and Concepts: Entrepreneurship, Small Business, and Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
Part II Country Context, Framework, and Methodology 3. Evolution of Small Business and Entrepreneurship Development Policies in Ethiopia 4. Assessing the Entrepreneurship Ecosystem: Framework, Data Sources, and Methodology
Part III Ecosystem Diagnosis and Entrepreneurial Performance 5. Determinants of the Entrepreneurship Ecosystem in Ethiopia 6. The Performance of Ethiopian Entrepreneurship Ecosystem
Part IV Business Development Services in Focus 7. Mapping Ethiopia's BDS Market: Actors, Type of Services, and Outreach 8. Sustainability of Business Development Services (BDS) 9. Determinants and Selection in Small Business Access to BDS in Ethiopia 10. Impact of BDS on Enterprise Performance
Part V Synthesis and Policy Implications 11. Summary, Conclusions, and Policy Implications
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Mulu Gebreeyesus is Term Associate Professor at Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, NY. He was formerly a senior researcher at the United Nations University (UNU-MERIT) in the Netherlands and the Ethiopian Development Research Institute. He has published widely in the areas of competition and enterprises dynamics, industrial policy, entrepreneurship, and small business development.
Habtamu Legas is Assistant Professor of Economics at Addis Ababa University. He has also served as a consultant to numerous national and international organizations on diverse development issues. His research focuses on labor market dynamics, entrepreneurship and small business development, and the evaluation of development programmes.
Abebe Ayana is researcher at Ethiopia's Policy Studies Institute. He holds a PhD in development economics from GRIPS, Japan. His expertise includes SMEs, entrepreneurship, trade and industrial development, and impact evaluation, with prior roles as a lecturer and consultant for the World Bank and other international organizations.
