Women in Micro- and Small-Scale Enterprise Development
Women's role in enterprise development is now acknowledged as crucial, and a sense of urgency seems to beset all practitioners in the field. This book presents the complexity of women's situations in micro- and small-scale enterprises, and the importance of the issues being addressed, through the bringing together of contributions from practitioners and researchers. It provides a detailed analysis of current knowledge, and guidelines towards improved practice.
Published: 1995
Pages: 296
Paperback: 9781853392849
| Introduction | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Louise Dignard and Jose' Havet | |||
| PART I | |||
| Social Context and Main Issues | |||
| 1 The Human Economy of Microentrepreneurs | |||
| lrene Tinker | |||
| 2 Entrepreneurship and Small- and Microenterprise | |||
| Development for Women: A Problematique in Search | |||
| of Answers, a Policy in Search of Programs | |||
| Catherine van der Wees and Henny Romijn | |||
| PART I1 | |||
| Case Studies | |||
| 3 Women and Development Alternatives: | |||
| Micro- and Small-Scale Enterprises in India | |||
| Ela Bhatt | |||
| 4 Women in Micro- and Small-Scale Enterprise | |||
| Development in Sri Lanka | |||
| Lakshmi Perera | |||
| 5 Swedish International Development Authority's Support | |||
| to Women's Small-Scale Enterprises in Tanzania 117 | |||
| Carolyn Hannan-Andersson | |||
| 6 Women's Micro- and Small-Scale Enterprises' | |||
| Emergence, Features and Limits: | |||
| A Costa Rican Experience | |||
| lris Villalobos Barahona | |||
| 7 Supporting Women in the Informal Sector: | |||
| A Peruvian Experience | |||
| Susana Pinilla Cisneros | |||
| PART I11 | |||
| Components of Women's Micro- and Small-Scale | |||
| Enterprise Assistance | |||
| 8 Key Issues on Women's Access to and Use of | |||
| Credit in the Micro- and Small-Scale Enterprise Sector 189 | |||
| Marguerite Berger | |||
| 9 Women, Technology and Small Enterprise Development 217 | |||
| Marilyn Carr | |||
| 10 Training Issues: Women in Micro- and Small-Scale | |||
| Enterprises in Africa 229 | |||
| Thelma Awori | |||
| Bibliography | |||
| About the Book and Editors | |||
| About the Contributors | |||
| Index |
Louise Dignard
Louise Dignard has been an international development consultant and is presently a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at Carleton University, Ottawa.
Jose Havet
Jose Havet is professor of sociology at the University of Ottawa and has published extensively on peasant and migration problems, particularly in Latin America.
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