CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA SEMINAR ON SMALL AND MEDIUM INDUSTRIES EQUITY INVESTMENTS SCHEME (SMIEIS) Publication of CBN Training Centre‚ Lagos NO. 4 Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Published 2003 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced‚ transcribed‚ translated in any other language‚ stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means‚ electronic‚ mechanical‚ magnetic‚ chemical‚ photocopying‚ recording‚ manual or otherwise‚ without the prior permission
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Financing small scale business enterprises CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACK GROUND OF THE STUDY Over the years‚ it has become fashionable for successive government to come up with one economic policy or the other in a bid to bring about improvement in the nation during her regime. The then military administrator in the year 1986 while in power introduced an economic program called Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP) which was foisted on Nigerians as an alternative to IMF/World
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SMALL AND MEDIUM SCALE ENTERPRISES IN NIGERIA: THE PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS. By Abiodun Fatai1 Department of Political Science‚ Faculty of Social Sciences Lagos State University‚ Ojo‚ Lagos Nigeria. ABSTRACT Small and medium scale enterprises have long believed to be catalysts for economic growth and national development both in developed and developing countries. In Nigeria where private sector is not well developed SME is assumed to play the role of employment generation‚ facilitator of economic
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February 2012 Development of Small and Medium Scale Enterprises: The role of Government and other Financial Institutions By: Emmanuel O. Oni Ph.D & Daniya A. A. Department of Entrepreneurship and Business Technology‚ Federal University of Technology‚ Minna ABSTRACT Small and Medium Scale Enterprises constitute essential ingredients in the lubrication and development of any economy. In Nigeria‚ the story makes no remarkable difference as Small and Medium Scale Enterprises dominate the economy
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and choice that the better-off take for granted. They often lack adequate food and shelter‚ education and health‚ deprivations that keep them from leading the kind of life that everyone values. They also face extreme vulnerability to ill health‚ economic dislocation‚ and natural disasters. And they are often exposed to ill treatment by institutions of the state and society and are powerless to influence key decisions affecting their lives. Some progress has been achieved over the last 40 years regarding
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Theories of Growth of Small Enterprises Various theoretical models have been developed which describe the growth of small businesses. One class of theoretical models focus on the learning process‚ either active or passive‚ and the other models refer to the stochastic and deterministic approaches. In the passive learning model (Jovanic 1982 cited in Liedholm 2001)‚ a firm enters a market without knowing its own potential growth. Only after entry does the firm start to learn about the distribution
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efficient manner has continue to be the only viable and alternative for development of small scale enterprises in Nigeria and for the development‚ growth and survival of any economy. The development of small scale enterprises not only contributes significantly to imposed standard‚ they also bring substantial local capital formation and achieve high level of productivity. Small and medium scales are crucial to the development of all economies of the world. They are the modern day’s incubators of job
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Major problems facing small scale enterprises One major problem in Nigeria’s business environment is inadequate power supply. This and other factors are responsible for the problems and low performance of small scale enterprises and these problems seem to have to defied all efforts by government to address them. The problems over the years have equally kept foreign investors on the run despite Nigeria’s efforts to lure them to invest in the country.In this edition‚ Saturday Vanguard went to town
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IMPACT OF MICROFINANCE ON FINANCIAL EMPOWERMENT OF MICRO AND SMALL ENTERPRI ABSTRACT Microfinance is the provision of savings accounts‚ loans‚ insurance‚ money transfers and other banking services to customers that lack access to traditional financial services‚ usually because of poverty. It is the provision of financial services to the low income households and micro and small enterprises. The general objective of this study was to investigate the impact of Microfinance on financial empowerment
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SMALL SCALE INDUSTRY INTRODUCTION The definition for small-scale industrial undertakings has changed over time. Initially they were classified into two categories- those using power with less than 50 employees and those not using power with the employee strength being more than 50 but less than 100. However the capital resources invested on plant and machinery buildings have been the primary criteria to differentiate the small-scale industries from the large and medium scale industries. An
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