Small Business in Transition Economies
Promoting enterprise in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union
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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