Small Enterprises and Changing Policies
Structural adjustment, financial policy and assistance programmes in Africa
Discusses the idea and practice of small enterprise development in Africa in a changing policy environment. Covers topics such as the impact of adjustment on small enterprise; financial policy reforms and assistance; and how to sustain government and NGO assistance.
Published: 1993
Pages: 384
eBook: 9781780445908
Hardback: 9781853391866
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| Preface vii | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Glossary viii | |||
| Part I: Introduction | |||
| Small enterprise promotion in a changing policy environment in | |||
| Africa: raising issues and attempting answers (A.H.J. Helmsing and | |||
| T. Kolstee) 3 | |||
| Small enterprise and industrialization policies in Africa: some notes | |||
| (A.H.J. Helmsing) 24 | |||
| Analysing the policy framework for small enterprise development | |||
| (W.F. Steel) 39 | |||
| Part II: Structural adjustment and Small Enterprises | |||
| Impact of structural adjustment on small-scale enterprises in Ghana | |||
| (B. Osei, A. Baah-Nuakoh, K. Tutu and N.K. Sowa) 53 | |||
| Impact of structural adjustment on the small enterprise sector: a | |||
| comparison of the Ghanaian and Tanzanian experiences (J. Dawson) 71 | |||
| Impact of adjustment policies on the small-scale enterprise sector in | |||
| Tanzania (M.S.D. Bagachwa) 91 | |||
| Industrial sector in Mali: responses to adjustment (J.C. Kessous and | |||
| G.Lessard) 114 | |||
| Structural adjustment and small-scale enterprise development in | |||
| Zimbabwe (C. Mumbengegwi) 144 | |||
| Changing policy regimes for small-scale industries in Latin America. | |||
| Lessons for Africa? (F. Uribe-Echevarrfa) 159 | |||
| Part III: Financial policies and Small Enterprise credit | |||
| Sectoral credit allocation policy and credit flow to small enterprises in | |||
| Ghana (E. Aryeetey) 187 | |||
| Financial liberalization under structural adjustment and its | |||
| implications for financing small-scale and microenterprises in Nigeria | |||
| (T. A. Oyejide) 204 | |||
| Financing small-scale and microenterprises in Kenya under | |||
| conditions of liberalized financial markets (K.M. Mwarania) 214- | |||
| Dutch experience with SSE credit: evaluation and policy implications | |||
| (R. Teszler) 230 | |||
| The iqqub and its potential as an indigenous institution financing | |||
| small enterprises in Ethiopia (D. Aredo) 245 | |||
| Small- and microenterprise dynamics and the evolving role of finance | |||
| (C. Liedholm) 261 | |||
| Part TV: Policies for sustaining direct assistance for small | |||
| enterprises | |||
| Women entrepreneurs, donor promotion and domestic policies | |||
| (R.B. Gaidzanwa) 277 | |||
| Promoting women's enterprises: what Africa can learn from Latin | |||
| America (M. Buvinic) 295 | |||
| Small and microenterprise promotion and technological policy | |||
| implications (S. Wangwe) 308 | |||
| Private-sector organizations and support for small and | |||
| microenterprises (J. Levitsky) 318 | |||
| Notes on contributors 341 | |||
| Endnotes 343 | |||
| Bibliography 349 |
A H J Helmsing
Helmsing has been extensively engaged in projects of inter-university cooperation in Colombia, Chile, Central America, Zimbabwe and Ethiopia; Extensive experience with (evaluation of) decentralisation and local government and governance reform; area based development programmes and policies; and evaluation of development programmes and policies
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