Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.91.950801141655.28183C-100000@falstaff.ucs.indiana.edu> Date: Tue, 1 Aug 1995 14:31:03 -0500 From: Tjip Walker <mailto:stwalker@INDIANA.EDU> Subject: Re: Organizations To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
I agree with your observation that there has been a preoccupation with credit as the means to stimulate micro-enterprise development. However, I do not think that "generic" solutions, whether credit, or the ones you list are the answer either. Rather, I think you need to procced from an analysis of the industry or subsector in which the micro-enterprise(s) operate(s) or plan(s) to operate. A very useful introduction to this approach can be found in an 1992 article by Boomgard, Davies, Haggblade and Mead entitled "A Sub-Sector Approach to Small Enterprise Promotion and Research" published in World Development vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 199-212.
Tjip Walker
Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University phone: (812) 855-2562 fax: (812) 855-3150