Resources Tagged: Small Business
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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...
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This book is the result of seven years' experience of working on financial record-keeping with Oxfam's overseas offices and projects. But the procedures that it describes are not specific to Oxfam, or even to development projects. It should be useful to any small group that needs to keep accurate...
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01-01-2000 This issue sees the birth of 'Problems, Problems', with Professor Malcolm Harper trying to give helpful answers and suggestions to the hard-pressed and lonely managers of microfinance and BDs projects everywhere. While light-hearted in tone, we hope that his section will try to get to grips with...
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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...
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This book brings together important aspects of both the technological and business skills needed to successfully start and operate a small food proccessing business. The emphasis is on thorough planning before the enterprise is established and then careful control of production to minimize costs...
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With this book, ACCION wishes to illustrate the importance of the micro-business sector as a whole to the economic future of Latin American countries and to provide insight into the complex nature of the urban slum economy.
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01-01-1991 This book reports on the proceedings of the National Conference which was help to present and discuss the specific experiences of different government and nongovernment organizations involved in the promotion and development of microenterprises in the Philippines.
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This book was written as a simple guide to the evaluation of small business projects.
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The main findings of this study support the hypothesis that village chicken production forms the basis for transforming the rural poultry sector from subsistence to a more economically productive base. This study also highlights the importance of information systems, which include data management...
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01-01-1996 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...