Development Of Small Scale Industries Research Articles

Rural Development and Agro-Industrial Promotion in Nigeria: Concepts, Strategies and Challenges

The relevance of industrial development to national economic growth cannot be over-emphasised. This paper examines the importance of agro-industrial promotion to rural development. It discusses the theoretical underpinning of rural development and small scale / agro-industrial establishments. It identified the strategies that could be used for establishing small-scale industries in the rural areas. Finally, the challenges, opportunities and benefits derivable from small-scale industrial development in the rural areas are highlighted.

Strengthening industry-research linkage for small scale industrial development in Ghana - the relevance of scientific and technological information

Strengthening industry-research linkage for small scale industrial development in Ghana - the relevance of scientific and technological information

Forestry and Flooding in the Annecy Petit Lac Catchment, Haute-Savoie 1730-2000

Abstract Upland environments are particularly vulnerable to the stresses of climate change. The strength and persistence of such forces are not easy to measure and hence comparison of climate impacts with anthropogenic impacts has remained problematic. This paper attempts to demonstrate the nature of human impact on forest cover and flooding in the Annecy Petit Lac Catchment in pre-Alpine Haute Savoie, France, between 1730 and 2000. Local documentary sources and a pollen record provided a detailed history of forest cover and management, making it possible to plot changes in forest cover against local and regional precipitation records, and their individual and combined impacts on flooding. A main period of large-scale, uniform and rapid deforestation in the catchment was identified in the early nineteenth century, but sub-catchment patterns of reforestation and regeneration have varied up to the present. The period of deforestation was accompanied by demographic expansion and regional scale exogenous forces, such as small scale industrial development, foreign occupation, war, caveats and laws, acting alongside local scale endogenous forces and land fragmentation, agricultural crisis, and the desire for pasture. These all produced conflict between individual needs and those of communities and resulted in localised changes in forest cover. Joint phases of deforestation and flooding are more evident in individual second order tributaries than the whole catchment, but there appears to be no obvious or simple causal link between forest cover change, climate anomalies and flooding.

Updating Seminal Studies of Entrepreneurial Researchers in the 60's to the 90's

ABSTRACT As early as the 1960's various researchers of African and Nigerian small business and entrepreneurship like P. Schatz, P. Kilby, J. Harris and M. Rowe, A. Ale, W. Nafziger, J. Wilde and others have been debating. Their argument is with attempt to trace and identify the factors which continue to stunt the growth and development of small and medium enterprises (SME's) and entrepreneurship in Africa and in Nigeria. The investigations carried out by these and other researchers on this subject should be accepted as pertinent and justifiable. This is especially so, in consideration of the abundant availability of both natural and mineral resources for use as raw materials within the continent. In addition, enormous amount of funds has been expended alongside immense attention and effort by governments towards the development of small-scale industries and entrepreneurship. A number of external factors therefore, like inadequate infrastructure, scarcity of machines, spare parts and equipment, lack of information, paucity of raw material supplies and problem with government policies and officials as well as cultural factors have been identified among the most serious obstacles. Internal factors such as poor organizational planning, problems of succession, inadequate re-investment of profits, lack of capital and poor managerial skills have also been noted by other researchers as main growth barriers. This research updated earlier work done by these different groups of researchers with reference to the small plastics manufacturing sector in Nigeria to see if there have been any changes in the last 10-30 years of study. The findings revealed that there has hardly been any significant difference in terms of improvement especially of external constraints observed between the 1960's and 1990's. However, the study found a number of progressive internal improvements being applied in other small plastic manufacturing businesses. Recently, some small plastics manufacturing entrepreneurs on their own initiative have learned to create and innovate various ways of coping with constraints facing their businesses independently.

Local Identities and Territorial Politics in Italy and France

This article compares two areas, Sesto San Giovanni near Milan and V6nissieux near Lyon, which until recently were characterized by a working-class culture and a communist identity, which in turn stemmed from a concentration of large-scale heavy industry and the presence of powerful trade unions. Both areas have gone through a process of severe de-in-dustrialization and deep social change, accompanied by significant political developments. The article examines the effects these changes have had upon the two localities, both from the point of view of social identities and of the role and orientations of local political actors. Research findings in both towns indicate that there is a congruence between underlying social identities and the specific solutions attempted by the main political actors to deal with de-industrialization. In Sesto, the Communist Party and the left-dominated council have reacted to a weakening of the communist subculture by shedding their traditional proletarian image. They are keen to promote the development of small-scale industry, relying on the resilience and vitality of the family and social networks. In Venissieux the social situation is closer to 'anomie', while the left subculture is closing ranks and adopting a defensive stance. The local council relies on central government for large-scale schemes of urban regeneration. Nation-specific patterns of political behaviour and socioeconomic development prevail over crossnational similarities. A common phase as urban conurbations dominated by a small number of large corporations and as centres of trade-union militancy and communist culture has given way to contrasting scenarios.

Long-term Development of Small-scale Industries in Relation to Economic Development: Looking for General Propositions

The growing attention, in literature on economic development, towards the role of Small-scale Industries (SSls) within the economy of the less developed countries (LDCs), is strongly associated with the recognised current economic and social problems of continuing imbalance in the labour market leading to high unemployment rates, the persistence of large intra- and inter-regional socio-economic inequalities; and the consolidation of extremely concentrated patterns of urbanisation, facing these countries. On the other hand, there is the notion stating that the importance of SSls decreases with the course of economic development. The available empirical evidence on this issue diverges significantly from the afore-mentioned notion. In the background of this contradictory evidence, the paper aimed to discuss this issue and arrive at some general conclusions which would help in deriving a pattern from the available studies and evidence on the issue under reference. The conclusion of the paper suggests that no matter how far a country has developed, but as long as domestic problems of high rates of unemployment, mass poverty or unequal distribution of income exist, SSls will continue to play an important role as a 'last resort' for the poor of the country.

Book Reviews : R. Jaya Prakash Reddy, Problems and Development of Small Scale Industries in India, New Delhi: Ashish Publishing House, 1991, pp. xv + 190, Rs. 200

Book Reviews : R. Jaya Prakash Reddy, Problems and Development of Small Scale Industries in India, New Delhi: Ashish Publishing House, 1991, pp. xv + 190, Rs. 200

Policy Issues in Small-Scale Industrial Development in Nigeria

Policy Issues in Small-Scale Industrial Development in Nigeria

Development of Small Scale Industries - Some Issues

Development of Small Scale Industries - Some Issues

Rural small scale industries and regional development: A Case Study From Bantul District, Special Province of Yogyakarta

In last two decades, the small scale industrial sector, due to various reasons, has increasingly received attention from Indonesian policy makers. In the research area, rural small scale industrial activities play an important role, yet in a varying way. Production factors like labour and capital as well as the degree of localism are used to illustrate the differences in character. Attention is also paid to the linkages of those small scale industrial units with other units and sectors. Based on the main characteristics and the function of those rural small scale industrial activities, a distinction is made between basic and non-basic activities. A short description is given of the most important government programmes in the sphere of small scale industrial development. It is concluded that policy makers have given insufficient attention to the differences within the sector. As a result, most of the small scale industrial units are deprived of the programmes which are specifically designed for them.

Concessional Credit for Small Scale Enterprise

* This paper is based on work carried out for the Harvard Institute for International Development as an Adviser to Bank Indonesia's Small Enterprise Development Project. I gratefully acknowledge the assistance and support of Bank Indonesia. The views expressed in this paper are mine alone and are not intended as representing the position of Harvard or of the Bank Indonesia. Some descriptive portions of this paper, including Annex 1, are drawn from a paper ‘Small Scale Enterprise Credit Programs in Indonesia, Background and Experience’, presented by Kamardy Arief, Managing Director of Bank Indonesia, at the World Bank sponsored Conference on Development of Small Scale Industry, 8–11 December 1981, in Colombo, and at the Asia Society/AID Workshop on Small Scale Enterprise Programs and Project Issues, 30 November–3 December 1981, in Yogyakarta.

Technology and Market Developments in Japanese Small-Scale Firms: A Case Study of Appropriate Technology

This paper analyzes the management system of Japanese small-scale firms in the areas of market and technology developments. It aims in citing the process of small-scale industrial development in Japan as appropriate model of the industries of other developing economies. Selected firms in Eastern, Central, and Northern Japan were sampled as specimens of the study.

Development of Small Scale Industries

Development of Small Scale Industries

Role of R & D and Educational Institutes in Small-Scale Industry

R&D and educational institutes play relatively a minor role in the development of Small-scale industries in the country. Most small-scale industries employ simple technology and deal with useful items, the development of which hardly needs any sophistication. This is a field in which the individual engineer or the department of industries can provide all the technical assistance. R&D and educational institutes should help in the development of small-scale industries based on sophisticated technology which would result in the development of products having a low raw-material content and which do not require much capital investment to set up.

Tanzania on the march towards Development of Small Scale Industries

Tanzania on the march towards Development of Small Scale Industries

Technical Co-operation for the Development of Small Scale Industries.

Technical Co-operation for the Development of Small Scale Industries.