Micro- and Small Enterprises in Latin America
Experience of business development services
Jacob Levitsky, Lene Hojmark Mikkelsen
This publication should be of special interest to all people working on programmes related to small enterprise development, including representatives of business associations, financial institutions, universities, business schools, research organisations,
Published: 2001
Pages: 184
eBook: 9781780440842
Paperback: 9781853395284
| Foreword | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Contributors | |||
| List of Acronyms | |||
| Part I, Introduction to Business Development Services | |||
| 1 Principles of good practice in business development services | |||
| ALAN GIBSON | |||
| Part II, The Market for Business Development Services | |||
| 2 Training vouchers: a tool for market development in Paraguay | |||
| LARA GOLDMARK AND GABRIEL SCHOR | |||
| 3 The Argentine matching grant programme | |||
| MARILUZ CORTES AND SONIA PLAZA | |||
| 4 The consultancy and training services market for small and medium enterprises in Argentina | |||
| PABLO ANGELELLI, FRANCISCO GATTO AND GABRIEL YOGUEL | |||
| Part III, Experiences of Business Development Services in Latin America | |||
| 5 Promoting networks of small enterprises in Latin America | |||
| MARCO DINI AND JOHN HUMPHREY | |||
| 6 Sustainability in the marketing of handicrafts in Nicaragua | |||
| TAMARA PEREIRA | |||
| 7 Market-based services for microenterprises in Ecuador | |||
| ANTONIO LANUSSE | |||
| 8 The Business Information Service in Bolivia | |||
| GARY MONTAÑ0 HERNÁNDEZ | |||
| 9 Review of export development services for small firms | |||
| CRESSIDA S. McKEAN | |||
| 10 Swisscontact’s business centre approach in Peru | |||
| JUAN H. HAGNAUER, CECILIA RIVERA AND JOSÉ A. VALCÁRCEL | |||
| Part IV, Role of the Public Sector in Business Development Services | |||
| 11 The experience of Corporación de Fomento in Chile | |||
| RIVAS G. GONZALO | |||
| 12 Review of business services and local economic development | |||
| FRANCISCO ALBURQUERQUE | |||
| 13 The role of private partnership and public agencies in the Sinos Valley, Brazil | |||
| HUBERT SCHMITZ | |||
| 14 Public–private partnerships in local development in Argentina | |||
| OMAR A. PEROTTI |
Jacob Levitsky Jacob Levitsky is a development consultant based in the UK, and was formerly Small Enterprise Advisor for the World Bank in Washington DC.
Lene Hojmark Mikkelsen Lene Hojmark Mikkelsen is a consultant with the Microenterprise Unit of the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington DC.
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