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Introduction
The word "entrepreneur" is derived from the French verb enterprendre that means, "to undertake" ([14] Desai, 1999). The term "Entrepreneur" has been defined differently by different people and yet no consensus has been reached on one universally accepted definition. For the purpose of our research an entrepreneur is an individual who propelled by an idea, personal goals, and ambition, brings together the financial capital, people, equipment, and facilities to establish and manage a business enterprise ([16] Donnely et al. , 1990). Entrepreneurship is widely considered as an important ingredient in the modern global economic development recipe ([37] Kirschoff and Phillips, 1989; [35] Keeble et al. , 1990; [2] Audretsch and Fritsch, 1991). US studies exhibit 90 per cent of employment growth originating from the "entrepreneurial sector" of the economy ([44] Michael et al. , 1996) and this applies to other countries as well where entrepreneurship has gained importance in pursuit of growth ([28] Hoy et al. , 1992). Growth in this context refers to a significant increase in sales, profits, assets, employees, and locations. Unfortunately, this sort of growth is not vividly visible in African countries. Some of the factors necessary for the development of entrepreneurship such as risk taking ability, access to easy finance, arbitrage, ownership, research and extension education and co-ordination among the factors of production ([45] Mises, 1949; [39] Ladzani and van Vuuren, 2002; [8] Chaudhry and Crick, 2004; [10] Co and Mitchell, 2006) have reported to be missing here from years. In the latest studies-government policies, attitudes, overall quality of public administration and service to entrepreneurship or lack thereof, have been further cited as the most constraining reasons for African entrepreneurship ([18] Elkan, 1988; [34] Kallon, 1990; [49] Rasheed and Luke, 1995; [38] Koop et al. , 2000).
Entrepreneurship is a virtue that is capable of removing all the vices associated with economic growth, social disparities and employment. Many countries of the world are actively seeking ways and means to promote entrepreneurship. In many developing countries women entrepreneurs are taking leading role in helping their respective governments to establish and develop strong small and medium enterprises (SMEs) that contribute significantly to poverty reduction. SME development and promotion helps in mobilizing entrepreneurial initiative and autonomy and at the same time strengthens...