7 The Impact of Entrepreneurship Framework and Behaviour on Diaspora Remittance: An African Perspective Samuel Salia, Javed G. Hussain, Yahaya Alhassan, and Masud Ibrahim Introduction Diaspora remittance 1 into Africa is widely considered a poverty reduction tool through smoothing household consumption and fulfilling government balance of payment. As a result, the empirical evidence is focused on balance of payment and household consumption as drivers of remittance into Africa (Ajefu et al., 2020; Amidu et al., 2019; Huay & Bani, 2018; Siani, 2020). However, a significant population of the diaspora are interested in remitting finance into the home country to set up enterprises (Jia & Sun, 2020; Saadi, 1 Arthur et al. (2020) defines migrant remittance as the amount of funds remitted by the diaspora to the home country during a given period. S. Salia (B ) De Montfort University, Leicester, UK e-mail: samuel.salia@dmu.ac.uk J. G. Hussain Birmingham City University, Birmingham, UK Y. Alhassan University of Sunderland, London, UK M. Ibrahim Coventry University, Coventry, UK © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022 O. Kolade et al. (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of African Entrepreneurship, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75894-3_7 145