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African Small and Medium Enterprises, Networks, and
Manufacturing Performance
This paper examines the role of private support institutions in determining small and medium enterprise (SME) growth and performance in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). It finds that SMEs in SSA get around market failures and lack of formal institutions by creating private governance systems in the form of long-term business relationships and tight, ethnically-based,
business networks.
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http://ssrn.com/author=645957