Entrepreneurship, young people and Ghana's development: A case study of the ICT sector
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2010-04
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Abstract
The underdevelopment of the Ghanaian economy can conceivably account
for the socio-economic and other challenges confronting Ghana’s youthful
population. Ghana hopes to use the ICT4AD policy to create a conducive
environment to take advantage of enormous benefits that come from the
usage of Information and Communications Technology. Using the ICT
sector as a case study, this paper discusses how entrepreneurial traits were
promoted and or undermined as Ghana’s young entrepreneurs’ setup and
run their businesses. The central finding for this work was that
entrepreneurial capacity was undermined by the general corporate and
cultural environment in Ghana.
For economic development to take place there is the need to put in place
institutions and mechanisms to cater for the entrepreneurial potentials of
young people within the country. In other words, institutions must be
created and an enabling environment constructed to nurture, support and
develop the entrepreneurial capacity of the youth.
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Thesis submitted to the Department of Business Administration, Ashesi University College, in partial fulfillment of Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration, April 2010
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Ghana, ICT4D, youth, entrepreneurship