Promoting "Made in Africa"

Lucia Akosua Quachey writes(doc):

The fundamental importance of women entrepreneurs in promoting made in Africa goods is enormous. However, African governments and the private sector under estimate the crucial and important role women entrepreneurs play in production of goods and services and development of enterprises and the benefit to promoting made in Africa.
Entrepreneurship in all its diversity in Africa provides a dynamic and potentially efficient means of meeting the many of the emerging challenges of development and low productivity in Africa. The relationship between economic development and promoting the growth of the informal sector is in many ways symbolic. Entrepreneurial activity of the informal sector breeds innovation, injects competitive pressures and develops opportunities in economies. It is the foundation in many respects for broader economic development. African women entrepreneurs have a matured long standing tradition of entrepreneurship for centuries. In the context of promoting made in Africa goods, on-going reforms and rethinking of development will put women entrepreneurs in a pivotal position in relation to expectation