Small Manufacturing Enterprises and Employment in Developing Countries

I.M.D. Little

Asian Development Review (ADR), 1988, vol. 06, issue 02, 1-9

Abstract: In the 1970s a number of international institutions, and development activists, became very concerned that growth in developing countries was not reaching the poor. In particular, industrial development was capital intensive and absorbed little of the rapidly increasing labor force. An increased demand for unskilled labor was surely an essential component of any program to alleviate poverty. This concern for employment was soon linked to the advocacy of small-scale enterprises which were widely believed to offer more employment than larger enterprises for any given amount of investment. Some international institutions, including the World Bank, tried to steer more of their loans toward small-scale enterprises; and some developing countries, especially India, intensified measures to support and protect such enterprises…

Date: 1988
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