Fragility of Youth Entrepreneurship in Africa and Emerging Markets

Shantha Indrajith Hikkaduwa Liyanage ()
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Shantha Indrajith Hikkaduwa Liyanage: Botho University, Faculty of Business and Accounting

Chapter Chapter 1 in Strengthening Youth Entrepreneurship in Africa and Emerging Markets, 2026, pp 1-29 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Youth entrepreneurship in Africa is vital in two perspectives. One of them is that youth entrepreneurs’ contribution to the national economies is crucial because entrepreneurship is the engine of growth. The other perspective is that entrepreneurship enables youth entrepreneurs to create higher living standards for others to be employees and themselves as entrepreneurs, but none of them is true in Africa when compared with the developed countries. The fragility of youth entrepreneurship manifests from the fact that youth entrepreneurs are necessity-based entrepreneurs instead of opportunity-based entrepreneurs. Hence, in search of solution, this chapter elaborates the causes behind the fragility of youth entrepreneurship and adverse effect creating structural challenges in African entrepreneurship. Chapters 2 and 4 elaborate how two mechanisms, entrepreneurial education and financial and non-financial support system are fragile for youth entrepreneurship. The remaining chapters introduce the model developed for overcoming youth entrepreneurship challenges.

Date: 2026
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-32233-3_1

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