Resources Tagged: Small Business

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  1. Enterprise Development & Microfinance Small and Medium Enterprise Finance

    The articles in this edition, and the banks and other financial institutions they describe make a clear distinction between the two and use different approaches, and often different staff, to serve them. Donors and development agencies in their promotional materials aimed at a "nothern" public...
    Microfinance Finance Small Enterprise D... Developing countries Small Business

  2. Value Chain Finance: Beyond Microfinance for Rural Entrepreneurs

    This book describes 13 cases from 10 countries around the world (Bolivia, Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Nicaragua, Peru, Rwanda and Tanzania) where such initiatives have unclogged value chains, improved the lives of the rural poor, produced more and high-quality agricultural products, and made the...
    Finance Small Enterprise D... Developing countries Small Business

  3. Spinning: a handbook

    Spinning: a Handbook describes the basic principles and processes of spinning as they apply to small-scale operations, supplemented by methods of testing spun yearn quality; descriptions of the different types of small-scale spinning machines; how to plan a small-scale production-and where to go...
    Developing countries Spinning Small Business

  4. Pastured Poultry Profit$

    1996-01-01 A couple working six months per year for 50 hours per week on 20 acres can net $25,000-$30,000 per year with an investment equivalent to the price of one new medium-sized tractor. Seldom has agriculture held out such a plum. In a day when main-line farm experts predict the continued demise of the...
    Small Business Animal Husbandry

  5. Baked, Leavened Breads

    1991-01-01 This profile describes a small bakery operating with a single shift and producing 100 tons of baked products a year. It also describes a medium-sized plant operating on the same basis but producing 250 tons of baked goods a year. Dry materials are received and water added to make dough, which is...
    Downloads Small Business Recipes VITA Baking Baked Products Ind... Bread

  6. Glass Containers (Batch Process)

    1991-01-01 There are many processes by which the hot, viscous glass can be formed into the desired shapes. Bottles are made by blowing a thick bubble of glass into a mold to give it the desired external shape and to form such features as screw threads or emblems. Such articles as dishes and electrical...
    Downloads Business management Small Business VITA Glass Containers

  7. Women's Broadcloth Dresses

    1987-01-01 This Profile describes a plant operating with one shift and manufacturing 72,000 women's dresses a year (1,440/week, 288/day). It also describes a larger plant running a single shift and producing 104,000 dresses a year. Other similar products such as women's and girls' blouses, cotton skirts,...
    Downloads Business management Small Business VITA Patterns Clothing

  8. Paint Manufacturing

    1989-01-01 This Profile describes a small plant that will serve local needs, mainly in the trade-sales sector. Its output may exceed 4,000 liters per week (L/wk). For economic reasons, at least part of its total output may have been imported in bulk, and then tested, modified, and repackaged for the local...
    Downloads Business Planning Buisness Small Business VITA Paint Production Paint

  9. Small-Scale Paper Bag Manufacturing Process

    1989-01-01 This process is for the manufacture of small, box-shaped paper bags (our specific process turns out one and three quarters kilo bags, but a similar process is possible for other sizes as well.) It is designed to make 500 bags per day with a labor force of 3 to 5 people. This method uses labor as...
    Construction Manual Small Business Paper Bag Papermaking Paper Industry Small Scale

  10. Hand Papermaking

    1979-01-01 In many areas of developing countries paper is scarce. Rural schools may not have enough paper for their students and market goods may be wrapped in old newspapers if at all. Often this is because resources are not available to invest in modern papermaking factories, which require large amounts...
    Small Enterprise D... Downloads Small Business VITA Paper Industry Papermaking