Small business and entrepreneurship play critical role in stimulating economic activity, creating jobs, alleviating poverty and uplift living standards in Africa. It is widely accepted that the Micro and Small Enterprise (MSE) sectors have the potential to provide a livelihood for a considerably large number of poor rural and urban women in Ethiopia. Women account for the larger share of the in...

The “New Economy” is the most virulent part of the Knowledge-Based Economy. It is an important stepping-stone towards it. For this reason, many people wrongly believe that the “New Economy” is already the next stage of the economy. The New Economy is very visible, but so far it is still only a small part of the total economy. Nevertheless, there is no part of the economy that will remain untouc...