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Constraints to entrepreneurship: Findings from pilot studies in Kenya and Uganda

Project report 8 Jan 2019 Firms and Entrepreneurship

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  • Tracking constraints to entrepreneurship in Africa

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Tavneet Suri

Louis E. Seley Professor of Applied Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Louis Dorval

Co-founder, Viamo Mobile
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