Small Business in Transition Economies
Promoting enterprise in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union
With the collapse of the communist central planning regimes throughout Eastern and Central Europe and the vast area of the former Soviet Union there has been a trend toward building up a significant private sector and encouraging dynamic growth in the emerging markets of national economies. The donor agencies have responded by developing aid programmes to help in the creation of a strong private sector and more specifically to help in the development of small and medium enterprises (SME). This book looks at some of the experiences of SME projects carried out in the various countries in the region. Four themes considered of central importance to SME development * financial support, technical and management services, favourable policies conducive to SME development and the involvement of international donor agencies * are examined.
Published: 1996
Pages: 208
eBook: 9781780440941
Paperback: 9781853393433
| Acknowledgements v | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| List of Tables and Figures ix | |||
| List of Diagrams X | |||
| Introduction 1 | |||
| PART I: PONDS, PROTEIN AND THE POOR 7 | |||
| Chapter 1: Aquaculture in Bangladesh 9 | |||
| The setting: rural Bangladesh 9 | |||
| Fisheries in Bangladesh 20 | |||
| Aquaculture 23 | |||
| The region 27 | |||
| The study methodology 28 | |||
| Organization of the material 30 | |||
| Chapter 2: Markets, entrepreneurs and intervention 33 | |||
| Introduction: the policy context 33 | |||
| Aquaculture: state, market and community 35 | |||
| Rural markets 36 | |||
| Aquaculture markets - 41 | |||
| Entrepreneurship and innovation 43 | |||
| Intervention issues ' 46 | |||
| PART II: THE FISH TRADING NETWORK-TRAINS; | |||
| BUSES AND RICKSHAWS 51 | |||
| Introduction: an overview of the trading system 53 | |||
| Chapter 3: Finding the silver seed 55 | |||
| Wild hatchling collection 55 | |||
| Hatchery production 60 | |||
| Fingerling production 64 | |||
| Chapter 4: Wholesalers at the station 71 | |||
| The station market 71 | |||
| Chapter 5: Into the rural hinterland 77 | |||
| Fingerling traders and transportation 77 | |||
| Management of food fish ponds 86 | |||
| Chapter 6: Netting the catch 93 | |||
| The decline of traditional fisherfolk 93 | |||
| Food fish markets and traders 101 | |||
| PART III: POVERTY, MARKETS AND PROJECTS 113 | |||
| Chapter 7: Risky transactions 115 | |||
| The power of knowledge 115 | |||
| Risk management 117 | |||
| Credit, prices and profits 120 | |||
| Interlocked markets 124 | |||
| Chapter 8: Social preconditions of markets-the test | |||
| case of cultured fish 127 | |||
| Aquaculture and agrarian structure 127 | |||
| Markets, trust and morality 131 | |||
| The absence of formal law 136 | |||
| Winners and losers 143 | |||
| Chapter 9: Improving opportunities for the poor 147 | |||
| Possibilities considered 147 | |||
| 'Off the page and into the pond' 153 | |||
| 'Indigenizing' extension: the extension trader experiment 154 | |||
| Appendices | |||
| 1 Wild hatchling collection 167 | |||
| 2 The hypophysation process 168 | |||
| 3 Techniques of fingerling transportation 169 | |||
| 4 Water quality in the carrying vessels 173 | |||
| 5 Station trading data (seasonal distribution by species) 176 | |||
| 6 Price data 181 | |||
| Glossary 185 | |||
| Specialist terms 187 | |||
| Bibliography 189 | |||
| Index 195 |
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.
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