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| Title: | The role of small enterprises and small towns in the developing countries - and in the developed |
| Author: | Pedersen, Poul Ove |
| Year: | 1989 |
| Pages: | 98 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | CDR project papers, Red series (ISSN 0904-4698) |
| City of publisher: | Copenhagen |
| Publisher: | Centre for Development Research |
| Geographic terms: | world Africa |
| Subjects: | informal sector small enterprises small towns |
| Abstract: | This paper serves as a theoretical background for research on the development of small enterprises and small towns in Africa. The focus of the paper is an attempt to combine the concept of the informal or small enterprise as a way of organizing production and service activities and the concept of the small town as a way of organizing enterprises in space. The author looks in detail at the role of the small enterprise and the small town in economic development. To do this, he compares scenarios of three different societies divided by time and space, namely the developing countries of today, Denmark during the early industrialization (1840-1914), and Denmark in the 1980s. In Section 2, the author summarizes the extensive empirical and theoretical literature on the small scale/informal sector in the Third World. In Section 3, he presents an investigation of the interaction between small and large industries and services in Denmark in the 1980s. In Section 4, he presents some of the recent historical literature on industrialization and urbanization in Denmark in the period 1840-1914. In section 5, he sets up a model of the small enterprise and its environment, which draws on the experiences from all three scenarios. Finally, in Section 6, he uses the scenarios and the model to draw conclusions on the changing roles of small enterprises and small towns over time and in the course of development. |