Small and Medium Business Improvement in the ASEAN Region: Financial Factors
Kenneth James · Narongchai Akrasanee
Dec 1986 · Field Report Series · Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
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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.
About the author
•Kenneth James, Ph.D., is Research Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. His research interests include small business developments, industrialization and the Malaysian economy.
•Narongchai Akrasanee, Ph.D., is Managing Director of the Industrial Management Co. Ltd., Thailand, and Senior Vice President of the Industrial Finance Corporation of Thailand.
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