The politics of foreign aid favor increased attention to environmentally sustainable, market-based approaches to poverty reduction through small-and micro-enterprise development. A small-scale producers strategy can help ensure food security, maintain incomes and employment during economic structural adjustments, and promote better management of natural resources. Common problems facing small enterprises include limited access to financing and the technology gap. Some institutional implications of this strategy for the structure of development assistance programs are assessed.
In: World development: the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development, Band 21, Heft 3, S. 429-443
In: World development: the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development, Band 19, Heft 9, S. 1247-1268
In: World development: the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development, Band 18, Heft 3, S. 455-476
In: World development: the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development, Band 18, Heft 3, S. 455-476