An Overview of African Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research (Bibliography‪)‬

Introduction Africa is the poorest region in the world and the only major developing region with a negative growth in income per capita over the past two decades (Sachs et al., 2004: 117). Can entrepreneurship make a difference to economic growth and development in Africa? Answering this question would require rigorous research into African entrepreneurship. However, compared to research on entrepreneurship elsewhere in the world, and the extensive scientific debate on entrepreneurship in Europe and the United States, entrepreneurship research in Africa is relatively lacking. This lack is reflected in the fact that a number of recent in-depth scientific reports on the causes and remedies of Africa's slow economic growth performance fails to discuss entrepreneurship at all (Sachs et al., 2004; Fafchamps et al., 2001; Collier and Gunning, 1999a, 1999b).