| Автор | Knutsen, Hege M. |
| Дата выпуска | 2003 |
| dc.description | The article addresses possibilities and barriers to economic activity and development in the Oshana region of Northern Namibia. The focus is on the role of local embeddedness of economic activities in attaining economic development. A network perspective, based on theories of value chains that are embedded both in social relations and spatially, is selected as the analytical framework. The value chains of local black entrepreneurs in the study area are short. Moreover, the analysis reveals that social obligations may impede economic development, but that such practices are diminishing. The economic dominance and competition from South Africa is the main impediment to economic development in Northern Namibia. Local political embeddedness is shallow and political measures have not significantly reduced the implications of this dominance. |
| Издатель | Cambridge University Press |
| Название | Black entrepreneurs, local embeddedness and regional economic development in Northern NamibiaThis article forms part of a project carried out together with Sylvi Endresen, whom I thank for inspiring discussions and comments. I am also grateful for valuable input and support from Herbert Jauch at the Labour Resource and Research Institute (LaRRI) in Windhoek, and for funding of fieldwork provided by the Nordic Africa Institute in Uppsala. |
| DOI | 10.1017/S0022278X03004385 |
| Electronic ISSN | 1469-7777 |
| Print ISSN | 0022-278X |
| Журнал | The Journal of Modern African Studies |
| Том | 41 |
| Первая страница | 555 |
| Последняя страница | 586 |
| Аффилиация | Knutsen Hege M.; University of Oslo |
| Выпуск | 4 |
