Small and Medium Business Improvement in the ASEAN Region : : Financial Factors / / ed. by Kenneth James, Narongchai Akrasanee.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter ISEAS Archive eBook-Package 1970-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Akrasanee, Narongchai,; Akrosanee, Narongchai,; Ali, Fachry,; Avilasakul, Viyada,; Chudasring, Thitiraht,; Kee, Ch \x27ng Hak,; Lim, Chee Peng,; Loong-Hoe, Tan,; Rahardjo, M. Dawam,; Salazar, Melito S.,; Sing, Lim Hua,
• HerausgeberIn: Akrasanee, Narongchai,; James, Kenneth,
• Place / Publishing House: Singapore : : ISEAS Publishing, , [1986]; ©1986
• Year of Publication: 1986
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (281 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; LIST OF TABLES --; LIST OF FIGURES --; CONTRIBUTORS --; ACKNOWLEDGEMENT --; PREFACE --; I. FINANCIAL FACTORS RELATED TO SMALL AND MEDIUM BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT: AN OVERVIEW --; II. FINANCIAL FACTORS AFFECTING SMALL AND MEDIUM BUSINESSES IN INDONESIA --; III. STUDY AND EVALUATION OF EXISTING FISCAL AND FINANCIAL POLICIES AND SUPPORT FOR SMALL AND MEDIUM BUSINESSES IN MALAYSIA --; IV. FINANCIAL FACTORS AND SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT IN THE PHILIPPINES --; V. FINANCING OF SMALL AND MEDIUM BUSINESSES IN SINGAPORE --; VI. FINANCIAL FACTORS RELATING TO SMALL AND MEDIUM BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT IN THAILAND
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9789814345828; 9783110606690
• DOI: 10.1355/9789814345828
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Kenneth James, Narongchai Akrasanee.

The identification of small and medium businesses (SMBs) as a target for development policy is a comparatively recent phenomenon. It is clearly linked to the realization in developing countries that large capital-intensive industries which formed the basis of earlier development policies had failed to provide the hoped-for engine of growth. Only in the 1970s, as planners realized the mismatch between Western large-scale technology and local factor endowments, and as urban unemployment became an increasingly pressing problem, did attention turn to smaller scale and more labour intensive enterprises to provide possible solutions.