The Political Economy of Ingenuity: Evaluating SME Entrepreneurship as Africa’s Silver Bullet for Economic Development
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Muyanga, Amukelani
- Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of African, African American, and Diaspora Studies
- Abstract
- This research investigates how domestic SMEs’ business models are designed to help the poor navigate the circumstances of economic and social insecurity neoliberalism engenders, while also being proponents of the neoliberal project by capitalizing on the vacuum left by the state. This paper argues that SMEs play a contradictory role within South Africa’s neoliberal economic landscape given that they benefit from neoliberalism but also mitigate some of the economic insecurities it engenders for the poor segments that serve as clients, employees, or service providers.
- Date of publication
- April 2018
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- Funding: Morehead-Cain Foundation
- Advisor
- Nzongola-Ntalaja, Georges
- Degree
- Bachelor of Arts
- Academic concentration
- African, African American & Diaspora Studies
- Honors level
- Honors
- Degree granting institution
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Graduation year
- 2018
- Language
- English
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