Small-Scale Industrial Development and the Law

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Title:	Small-Scale Industrial Development and the Law
Authors:	Mulwila, John Turner, Kaye
Year:	1982
Periodical:	African Social Research
Issue:	33
Period:	June
Pages:	151-173
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Zambia
Subjects:	small-scale industry industrial policy Development and Technology Economics and Trade Law, Human Rights and Violence
Abstract:	The Small Industries Development Act (SID Act) (1981) established the Small Industries Development Organisation (SIDO) to achieve the development of small industries in Zambia. This article analyses the difficulties that are likely to confront SIDO in operation. Emphasising that law embodied in a legislative enactment is a means and not an end, the article raises issues which should be addressed before the legislative conditions necessary to begin to effect the transformation of small-scale manufacturing enterprises into vigorous participants in Zambia's industrialisation will be established. It is argued that there is a need for a comprehensive review of all existing legal measures with a bearing on the future direction of small-scale industrial development in Zambia. Note, ref.