Abstract:
Rural entrepreneurship development in Zimbabwe has been largely constrained
by lack of external financing. This paper sought to investigate the strategies that
Zimbabwean rural entrepreneurs are employing to finance their activities and
how these strategies conform to those propounded in existing literature. The
research design employed was largely descriptive survey in nature.
Questionnaires were hand delivered and collected and the results were
statistically analyzed using specialized computer packages and the results from
the study show that the entrepreneurs employ numerous strategies that largely
conform to existing literature with however, a few unlike strategies. Rural
entrepreneurship in Zimbabwe has not yet fully developed and is still largely
constrained.
