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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"Micro-enterprise"”.
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Socio-Economic Impacts of Micro-enterprise Credit in the Informal Sector of Managua, Nicaragua
… in recent years, credit programs that focus on micro-enterprise lending have been established and are significantly stimulating informal sector activities. This paper evaluates the effectiveness of micro-enterprise credit as a tool for promoting socio-economic development for informal-sector …
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Micro-Enterprise innovation in Zimbabwe's Knowledge Economy: Navigating the contextual barriers to achieve business viability
Micro-enterprise firms in emerging markets facing scarcity tend to adopt unconventional strategies infused with innovation fuelling their enterprising efforts to achieve viability. The nature of the environment drives micro-enterprises to come together, forming business hubs in formal and informal …
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Investigating entrepreneurship as the nexus to mainstreaming the micro enterprise informal sector: A case study of blue chip companies in the Nairobi Securities Exchange and government organizations tasked with mainstreaming the micro enterprise jua kali sector in Kenya
Background The process of mainstreaming the informal sector into the formal sector in Kenya has been considered and evaluated from as early as the 1970 as a means of poverty reduction and job creation. Information available on mainstreaming from the formal sector and government in Kenya indicate …
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Micro-enterprise finance as an empowerment tool for women-owned businesses: lessons from Kenya and South Africa
… poor are also limited. This study proffers that microfinance can be an effective mechanism which can be used to deliver financial services to the unbanked or those who only have access to informal banking services. More specifically, it focuses on how microfinance can be used to empower women and …
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An exploratory study of behavioural finance insights in the Small, Medium and Micro-Enterprise creditworthiness assessment process
Financial institutions are often reluctant to lend to smaller entrepreneurs due to perceived information asymmetry and lack of available collateral. At the nascent and new entrepreneurial levels, it is generally more difficult for loan applicants to provide the information required to secure the …
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Exploring the challenges facing micro enterprise immigrant traders in the Western Cape metropole : Greenmarket Square and the Hout Bay Harbour markets
This study explored the challenges facing immigrant traders in the Western Cape Metropole at the Greenmarket Square and the Hout Bay Harbour markets. A purposive / convenience sample was drawn of twelve immigrant traders and five key informants (seventeen participants). An exploratory, qualitative …
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Small, medium and micro enterprise promotion in the Western Cape clothing industry : the way forward for SMME's promotion in South Africa
… the government has assisted small, medium and micro enterprises (SMME's) in the Western Cape clothing industry. The ultimate aim is to propose a way forward in the light of what the government has done so far in terms of SMME's promotion since 1994 and the recent economic and social …
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Cultural-historical investigations into the dialectics of skills development implementation and occupational identity in the informal construction Small and Micro Enterprise workplace
… data are collected from the small and micro enterprise (SME) contractors and their workers; the work-seekers, who daily line the roadside identifying their skills via display of construction tools and signs; and skills development specialists. The rich data enables a cultural-historical …
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Developing a Training Manual for Aaidro's Communities Micro Credit Scheme in South Meru, Arusha, Northern Tanzania
Involvement in micro-enterprise self-employed activities is an important option for the low income, unemployed, disadvantaged society, in rural and urban areas of Tanzania. These low income people need to seek assistance from micro enterprise development programs because they cannot obtain …
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An analysis of factors constraining the growth of micro enterpreses in Lusaka
… researched in this study it was clear that micro enterprises have the potential to make a strong contribution to the economy of African countries like Zambia and others. In spite of this, it is concerning to note that they often do not progress to the next level of competence. An alarmingly …
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Debtor's Empowerment: Muhammad Yunus and the Rhetoric of Microfinance
… of global capitalism through a new logic of micro-enterprise. Working within a Foucauldian critical framework informed by the rhetorical scholarship of Ronald W. Greene and Joshua Hanan, the argument proceeds by first paying careful attention to Yunus' work as constitutive of a new grid of …
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Micro Finance and Urban Women Micro Entrepreneurs -The case of Hananasif Community Development Fund –Kinondoni-Dar es Salaam
The research aimed at investigating the impact of micro finance Institutions on urban women micro entrepreneurs, the case of Hananasif micro-credit institution in Kinondoni district, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Women in their efforts to engage in income generating activities faced certain obstacles …
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Social Capital and the Urban Informal Economy:The Case of Street Vendors in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Micro-enterprise development has become one of the most important approaches to reduce poverty in the LDCs. Like other LDCs, in Ethiopia micro-enterprise development forms the major component in the promotion of broad based growth and improvement of the well-being of the poor by providing income …
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Identification of common factors of innovation in a SMME
Small, Medium and Micro Enterprise (SMME) businesses in manufacturing contribute significantly to the economic growth of a nation, yet most of the research on innovation management in manufacturing industries has been focused on big firms. The current study identifies factors in SMME’s that are …
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Assessment of Community Management of Water Supply and Sanitation Projects A Case Study of Hananasif Ward, Kinondoni District, Dar Es Salaam Municipality "
… it will also include some package of micro- enterprise
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Developing a macro- and micro-metrics package for microfinance institutions
… of measures, or metrics, that can be used by microcredit programs and institutions to gauge their success as financial institutions, as well as their broader societal impact as welfare organizations. What was learned is that microcredit organizations, unlike more traditional financial …
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Aligning stakeholder interests : from complex systems to emerging markets
… used to formulate a new methodology, Design for Micro-Enterprise, that focuses on the needs of small-scale entrepreneurs. Results from the analysis suggest that focusing on a micro-entrepreneur's business strategy may be a successful approach to balancing both the end-user and supply chain …
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Evaluating women participation in information and communication technology (ICT) among MSME’s in Zambia; a case study of CBD, Lusaka.
… in ICT entrepreneurship across different enterprise levels (micro, small, and medium enterprises). The study used the TOE framework to formulate the variables that constitute this study. To identify the factors affecting women’s participation in ICT entrepreneurship and to investigate …
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