Small businesses & self-employment
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Candlemaking for Profit
Candlemaking is a traditional craft which can be converted into a modern small business with viable markets in most countries around the world. This book includes instructions on how to determine the feasibility of a candlemaking business, and advises on essential business planning. It gives detaile...
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Building Businesses With Small Producers
Building Businesses with Small Producers presents the findings and a comparative analysis of seven case studies that challenge current beliefs about good practice in the provision of business development services (BDS) to small and microenterprises. The book also highlights issues concerning the ass...
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Small Business Services in Asian Countries
Small Business Services in Asian Countries brings together presentations made at the meeting organized by the Donor Agency Committee for Small Enterprise Development held in Hanoi, Vietnam in April 2000. The book opens with a comprehensive introduction.
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Wheels of Trade
High levels of subsidy have tended to create dependency and interventions, which run in parallel with the day-to-day workings of the small enterprise sector. This book presents the findings from the ILO's FIT programme which has worked to define and explore a different approach to the provision of B...
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Baking for Profit
Most communities have the capacity to support a well-run bakery operation. With good planning and access to raw materials and markets, setting up a bakery can represent an excellent enterprise opportunity. Baking for Profit provides the information that a small entrepreneur needs to address when set...
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Export Marketing for a Small Handicraft Business
Written in plain, jargon-free language, this book provides vital information to help producers export more effectively. Keeping the perspective and situation of small-scale exporters in mind, it covers every aspect of exporting that it is important to know.
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Empowerment Through Enterprise
Based on over 20 years' experience in training NGO staff in enterprise development, this manual provides detailed guidelines for an eleven-day training course whose objective is to enable NGO staff to better assist others trying to start their own businesses. It covers marketing, financial managemen...
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Sericulture and Silk Production
Prabha Shekar, Martin Hardingham
This book describes the stages of mulberry bush growing, silkworm egg production, silkworm rearing, silk cocoon reeling and silk fabric production. Ideal for fieldworkers, development agencies and those starting small-scale manufacture or attempting to improve or extend manufacture (Published in the...
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Cook Electric
Using the example of Ghandruk this booklet describes how one form of energy- micro-hydro power- can help rural communities meet these needs and the implications this has for saving fuelwood.
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Their Own Idea
Written for those whose job it is to assist people to start their own businesses, or who are considering the merits of group as opposed to individual enterprise, this book looks at 13 case studies which all contain important lessons.