Browsing by Author "Garwe, David Kudzaishe"

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    The impact of gender on the characteristics and availability of debt finance to small and medium enterprises in selected cities in the Eastern Cape Province
    (University of Fort Hare, 2010) Garwe, David Kudzaishe
    Entrepreneurship and SMEs have, in recent years, become a key focus of research (Herrington, Kew & Kew, 2009). Entrepreneurship is considered to be an important mechanism for economic development through job creation, innovation and its welfare effect, which has led to a burgeoning policy interest in national-level entrepreneurial activity. Entrepreneurship and SMEs is not just an economic event; it is socio-economic phenomenon. SMEs are increasingly seen as playing an important role in the economies of many countries (Minniti, Arenius & Langowitz, 2005). Thus governments throughout the world focus on the development of the SME sector to promote economic growth (Dockel & Ligthelm, 2005:55).