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Title: | The Regulatory Framework and Small- and Micro-Enterprise Development in Eastern Africa |
Author: | Mihyo, Paschal B. |
Year: | 1997 |
Periodical: | Eastern Africa Social Science Research Review (ISSN 1027-1775) |
Volume: | 13 |
Issue: | 2 |
Period: | June |
Pages: | 43-73 |
Language: | English |
Notes: | biblio. refs. |
Geographic terms: | East Africa Africa |
Subjects: | small enterprises economic policy Politics and Government Development and Technology Law, Human Rights and Violence Economics, Commerce Small business Entrepreneurship government policy law |
Abstract: | The colonial marginalization of African entrepreneurs in East Africa was achieved through outright suppression, exclusion and discrimination. After independence, the situation deteriorated further. Access of small-scale and microenterprise operators in sub-Saharan Africa to land, credit, technology, markets and information has continued to be constrained by inherited laws and practices. Yet rules and regulations can play multiple functions of socialization and integration. Their utility could be enhanced if they facilitated rather than controlled development. Bibliogr., sum. |