Contemporary Issues in Economics Development, Africa

Contents: 1. Small scale enterprises. 2. Medium and small scale enterprises to socio-economic development. 3. Promotional entrepreneurship programmes in Nigeria. 4. Issues in employment in Nigeria. 5. Worldview issues of small and medium enterprises. 6. Issues in growth and development in Nigeria: economic and non-economic. 7. Causes and consequences of poverty. 8. Obstacles of Nigeria in economic growth. 9. Issues and challenges for growth in Nigeria. 10. Challenges and opportunities in small and medium enterprises. 11. Approaches for promotion programmes in entrepreneurship. 12. Small and medium entrepreneurship in Africa- a critical review. 13. Internal and external factors affecting small and medium enterprises. 14. Comparison with social entrepreneurs to corporate entrepreneurs. 15. General barriers. 16. Medium and small enterprises - an overview. 17. Unemployment issues and steps taken by the government .18. Past policies of government - a survey. 19. Issues and challenges in African youths.

The book has been compiled bearing in mind a variety of needs from business peoples that practice small scale business and the language and style of the book is consciously made simple so as to effectively cater for the multiplicity of interest groups highlighted. I must add here that the bulk of materials in this book had come in the main from a compilation of field surveys and Focus Group discussions, Interviews, questionnaire and literature reviews on the subject matters. The field of economics is wide and characterized by tortuous terrain. Although there are several texts and publications in economics, books which focus on the adaptation of economics principles to the entrepreneurship system are not very common. Traders, government, students of economics and business management therefore face the trauma of adapting principles of entrepreneurship to economic systems. These gap which this present book along with its precursors attempt to bridge. In order to fulfill this objective, the structure of the book is design to present an expose of entrepreneurship principles and small scale business.