Entrepreneurship for the Poor
The objective of this book is to provide information about entrepreneurship development programmes whose objective is to help people from the poorer groups in developing countries to create jobs for themselves by starting small enterprises. This information is intended for people who are responsible for directing small and medium enterprise promotion projects in developing countries. It should inform them about entrepreneurship development for these groups as it is currently being practiced, and enable them to decide whether or not to consider introducing this approach into their projects. If they do wish seriously to consider this, the information should help them to determine potentially promising methods and to identify sources of expertise from which they can conveniently obtain practical training, advice and experienced manpower
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Published: 1984
Pages: 140
eBook: 9781780440781
Paperback: 9780946688074
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| INTRODUCTION | |||
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| Objective | |||
| Field of Study | |||
| Background | |||
| INDIVIDUAL EXPERIENCES | |||
| Adrian Dixon - Kingston, Jamaica | |||
| Patricia Dageng - Baguio, The Philippines | |||
| Basu Dev Prajapati - Bhaktapur, Nepal | |||
| Hidayati - Wonokromo Village, Indonesia | |||
| Hari - Bhopal, India | |||
| HOW THE INFORMATION WAS OBTAINED | |||
| Background | |||
| Literature | |||
| Original Data Collection | |||
| A TYPICAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME | |||
| History | |||
| Publicity | |||
| Selection | |||
| Organisation | |||
| Content | |||
| Staffing | |||
| Support | |||
| Evaluation and Future Intentions | |||
| ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES AND "SUCCESS" | |||
| Background and Location | |||
| Organisation and Recruitment | |||
| Content and Staffing | |||
| Post-Programme Support | |||
| PROGRAMME DETAILS 34 | |||
| Technical Training 34 | |||
| Management Training and Information 35 | |||
| Preparation of Business Proposals 38 | |||
| Achievement Motivation Training 39 | |||
| Development Banking Centre, Management | |||
| Development Institute, India | |||
| University of The Philippines, Institute of | |||
| Small-Scale Industry | |||
| Different Methods of Entrepreneurship qc. | |||
| Development | |||
| The Yayasan Purba Danarta 99 | |||
| GENERAL ISSUES AND CONCLUSIONS 101 | |||
| (1) Is Entrepreneurship Development Worth 1 m | |||
| Doing at all? iUi | |||
| (2) Where should Entrepreneurship Development | |||
| Programmes be Introduced? | |||
| (3) Which Institutions should Conduct | |||
| Entrepreneurship Development Programmes? ^ | |||
| (4) Who should be the Trainers? 108 | |||
| (5) Who should be Trained? 110 | |||
| Summary 114 |
Malcolm Harper
Malcolm Harper taught at Cranfield School of Management until 1995, and since then has worked mainly in India. He has published on enterprise development and microfinance. He was Chairman of Basix Finance from 1996 until 2006, and is Chairman of M-CRIL, the microfinance credit rating agency.
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