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Promoting Grassroots Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Development in the Horn of Africa

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This paper engaged in conceptual discourse on the HOWs and WHYs of promoting entrepreneurship at a grassroots level. Dissemination of a popular entrepreneurial culture in a country is one of the main driving forces of achieving accelerated economic development. The paper mainly focuses on the Horn of Africa (HoA) countries. The discussion deals with what types of capacity a country needs to do to promote grassroots entrepreneurship as an effective tool for faster growth and reduction of poverty. The most effective nation-building process, among others, emanates from establishing entrepreneurship culture nationally particularly at the grassroots level. HoA nations can attain faster economic growth by creating a conducive environment for their predominantly younger population to actively engage in entrepreneurial and innovation activities. This can take place only if capacity building programs in entrepreneurship are initiated. We conceptually identified and clustered the resources and capacities needed to disseminate entrepreneurship at the grassroots level. Furthermore, we proposed an array of conceptual initiatives and action plans for consideration by the HoA nations to accelerate their nation-building process by fostering entrepreneurship and innovation nationwide. Our proposed initiative and action plans are conceptual and subjective to further discussion, adaptation, and improvement to reflect the objective reality of each nation.

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Tesfayohannes Beraki, M., Lee, R. (2019). Promoting Grassroots Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Development in the Horn of Africa. In: Chrysostome, E. (eds) Capacity Building in Developing and Emerging Countries. Contributions to Management Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16740-0_5

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