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Title:Small contractor development and employment: a brief survey of sub-Saharan experience in relation to civil construction
Authors:Crosswell, JamesISNI
McCutcheon, Robert
Year:2001
Periodical:Urban Forum
Volume:12
Issue:3-4
Pages:365-379
Language:English
Geographic terms:Subsaharan Africa
South Africa
Subjects:employment
small enterprises
construction industry
External link:https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12132-001-0012-8
Abstract:Small businesses have been advocated as an important means of generating employment. Development of small contractors for the construction industry has been advocated and explored in two different contexts in sub-Saharan Africa. Since the late 1970s it has been advocated in relation to the construction industry as a whole. Since the late 1980s it has been pursued in relation to employment-intensive construction and maintenance of infrastructure. This paper first outlines the arguments that have been put forward for the development of small contractors in the construction industry as a whole in sub-Saharan Africa. Second, a sketch is provided of the labour-intensive context within which it was later judged important to introduce small contractors, notably in South Africa. The author concludes that what is required is the introduction into small contractor development of the main lessons from labour-intensive work as a whole, which should be incorporated in a long-term, programme approach in which individual and operational capacities can be trained and fostered. Bibliogr.
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