Entrepreneurial Skills and Industrial Development: The Case of a Car Repair and Metalworking Cluster in Ghana

Journal of the Knowledge Economy

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 302-326

  Iddrisu, Alhassan ^a   Mano, Yukichi ^b   Sonobe, Tetsushi ^b  

^a Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning   (Ghana)

^b NATIONAL GRADUATE INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Africa; Entrepreneurial skills; Ghana; Impact evaluation; Industrial cluster; Industrial development; Propensity score matching; Training

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873162543     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18687873     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13132-011-0047-6     Document Type: Article

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