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State of Entrepreneurship in South Africa

Posted by admin on 24 Dec 2015 in Articles, Data | 11032 Views | Leave a response

How do we get a clear understanding of the state of Entrepreneurship in South Africa? How do we see how our policies affect entrepreneurs and how these compare to other nations?

Fortunately there are a number of annual reports that examine the state of entrepreneurship around the world.

The Reports

We at Ineng have decided to take a look at three respected reports.

  • The Legatum Prosperity Index 2015
  • The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor
  • The World Bank Group – Doing Business project

Here’s some information on the reports;

The Legatum Prosperity Index

The Legatum Institute‘s Prosperity Index is the only global index that measures national prosperity based on both wealth and wellbeing (objective and subjective data). The Index seeks to redefine the concept of national prosperity to include, as a matter of fundamental importance, factors such as democratic governance, entrepreneurial opportunity, and social cohesion.

The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor

The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) is the world’s foremost study of entrepreneurship. Through a vast, centrally coordinated, internationally executed data collection effort, GEM is able to provide high quality information, comprehensive reports and interesting stories, which greatly enhance the understanding of the entrepreneurial phenomenon – but it is more than that. It is also an ever-growing community of believers in the transformative benefits of entrepreneurship.

World Bank Group – Doing Business project

The Doing Business project provides objective measures of business regulations and their enforcement across 189 economies and selected cities at the subnational and regional level. The Doing Business project, launched in 2002, looks at domestic small and medium-size companies and measures the regulations applying to them through their life cycle.

By gathering and analyzing comprehensive quantitative data to compare business regulation environments across economies and over time, Doing Business encourages economies to compete towards more efficient regulation; offers measurable benchmarks for reform; and serves as a resource for academics, journalists, private sector researchers and others interested in the business climate of each economy.

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State of Entrepreneurship in South Africa

The Legatum Prosperity Index – South Africa

South Africa ranks 75th globally in the 2015 Prosperity Index, having risen by six places since last year.

Economy Entrepreneurship & opportunity Governance Education Health Safety & security Personal freedom Social capital
95 37 54 83 109 112 54 61

South Africa ranks 75th globally in the 2015 Prosperity Index, having risen by six places since last year.
South Africa’s best performance is in the Entrepreneurship & Opportunity sub-index, where it ranks 37th in 2015.
South Africa’s lowest rank is in the Safety & Security sub-index, where it ranks 112th in 2015.

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Above: South Africa’s ranking on Entrepreneurship & Opportunity on the Prosperity Index

The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor – South Africa

The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor described South Africa as having an alarmingly low level of entrepreneurial activity in spite of high unemployment

From the GEM Report:

“South Africa’s rate of entrepreneurial activity is very low for a developing nation – a mere quarter of that seen in other sub-Saharan African countries. Unemployment is around 40% of the adult population; despite this, the number of people starting businesses due to having no other option for work (necessity entrepreneurship) is low.

“Entrepreneurial activity in South Africa, although very low, has increased marginally over the last 10 years, but in 2014 dropped by a staggering 34% (from 10.6% to 7%). There has been an increase in women’s entrepreneurship primarily due to government support, but the perception of opportunities to start a business, and confidence in one’s own abilities to do so, remains alarmingly low compared to other sub-Saharan African countries.

The level of business discontinuance still exceeds that of business start-ups, resulting in a net loss of small business activity and subsequent job losses. Like elsewhere in Africa, many of the businesses cite lack of finance and poor profitability as the main reason for shutting up shop.

The typical South African entrepreneur is male, 25 – 44 years of age, lives in an urban area, is involved in the retail and wholesale sector and has a secondary or tertiary level of education.

Regulatory requirements make it very difficult for people to start businesses; this is further exacerbated by onerous labour laws and the low efficiency of the labour force. Corruption starting at the highest levels of government remains a major challenge, together with high levels of crime.”

World Bank Group – Doing Business project

The World Bank Group’s data shows that while South Africa is a better place to start a business than most other African nations, there is much room for improvement in order to compete with other economies.

The data also shows a decline in many of the key indicators.

Topics DB 2016 Rank DB 2015 Rank Change in Rank
Starting a Business 120 113
-7
Dealing with Construction Permits 90 82
-8
Getting Electricity 168 168 No change
Registering Property 101 97
-4
Getting Credit 59 52
-7
Protecting Minority Investors 14 12
-2
Paying Taxes  20 19
-1
Trading Across Borders 130 130 No change
Enforcing Contracts 119 117
-2
Resolving Insolvency 41 38
-3

Read the Full Reports

Legatum World report

The Legatum Prosperity Index 2015 (Download PDF)

GEM South Africa

The GEM South Africa Report 2014 (Visit the Download page)

Doing Business 2016

World Bank Group – Doing Business 2016 in South Africa (Download PDF)

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Written by Michael Howe-Ely.

Michael is head of marketing at Ineng.

Posted in Articles, Data | Tagged Data, Doing Business, Entrepreneurship, Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, Legatum Prosperity Index, Michael Howe-Ely, South Africa, State of Entrepreneurship in South Africa, World Bank

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