26/06/2016
Africa: Small Firms Can Provide Jobs, but Big Firms Are Key to Growth
[The Conversation Africa] Almost all developing countries have policies to promote small and medium-sized firms. The reasons for this choice are clear. Small firms appear to create lots of job with relatively little capital and jobs are desperately needed in sub-Saharan Africa with its growing young population. In contrast large firms are usually ignored, it being implicitly assumed that their size indicates success. Ghana is no exception. ......
