Incentives for female entrepreneurs

UNCTAD s EMPRETEC programme on entrepreneurship and small and medium scale enterprise development aims at stimulating employment creating investment, technology transfer and export diversification through the training of indigenous entrepreneurs and the development of innovative SMEs.

In the financial, agricultural, industrial and commercial sectors, entrepreneurs of developing countries would face stiff competition from their foreign counterparts.

It is based on the recognition that the latent capacity of the poor for entrepreneurship would be encouraged with the availability of small scale loans and would introduce them to the small enterprise sector.

The resulting trend is towards oligopolistic competition and growing intra firm and inter firm competition.

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Similarly, without creating business and consumer confidence by restoring fiscal control, the use of incentives to stimulate entrepreneurship and business start ups may not be enough.

3. Enterprise issues relating to an enterprise development strategy.

It calls for actions to be taken in three specific areas

He also highlighted the need for technical assistance in SME development and the usefulness of UNCTAD's EMPRETEC programme in motivation building, which was essential for the promotion of successful entrepreneurs.

Development of small enterprises.

In several countries, SMEs have tried to organize themselves by setting up their own SME sections within existing business associations or, even more radically, have tried to establish independent small business organizations.

UNIDO also assisted 14 Latin American countries in the establishment of a regional network of 28 subcontracting and partnership exchanges linking small and medium scale enterprises and promoting various forms of business cooperation that have stimulated business activity and created new jobs.

Item 3 Enterprise issues relating to an enterprise development strategy

with. The government has a variety of incentives for entrepreneurship in general.

Moreover, as soon as some production capacity is developed, domestic competition may be stimulated by allowing entry of other domestic firms into the industry.

The past year also saw concrete follow up to the report of the Commission on the Private Sector and Development entitled Unleashing Entrepreneurship Making Business Work for the Poor , presented in March 2004 under the auspices of UNDP.

Unleashing Entrepreneurship Making Business Work for the Poor.

In this respect, access to finance for new and expanding firms greatly influences firm development and growth.

These issues include the role of the State in creating an enabling macroeconomic environment for enterprise development, the promotion of a policy dialogue between the Government and the enterprise sector, the development of domestic productive capacities, the stimulation of enterprise development through the removal of trade and technical barriers and the facilitation of transfer of technology, and issues related to the graduation of enterprises from the informal to the formal sector.

Mr. Toru Ueno, Principal Administrator, OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs and Local Development (CFE), Small and Medium sized Enterprise (SME) and Entrepreneurship Division, OECD

It should stimulate the productive capacities of micro, small and medium enterprises, especially in the agro industry sector.

(b) Small enterprise and business development

Development of local entrepreneurs

AGREED CONCLUSIONS ON ENTERPRISE ISSUES RELATING TO AN ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY

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I. Agreed conclusions on enterprise issues relating to an enterprise development strategy

The development of enterprises, especially small and medium sized enterprises, is essential to economic growth and employment.

24. It was not only at the level of firms that there must be an enterprise development strategy.

The presence of competitors, for example, can provide a stimulus that leads to an improvement in a firm s performance.

These support programmes are coordinated by the Economic Development Board through its Enterprise Development Division, upgraded from a Small Business Bureau as its activities expanded to keep up with the growth of local enterprises, both in size and in number.

(iii) The development of innovation, entrepreneurial and technological capabilities as essential inputs for the development and growth of enterprises

Also, SMEs in developing countries could benefit from the experience of SMEs in developed countries.

New ground would be broken in reforming State owned enterprises and diversifying public ownership.

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In comparison to large firms, SMEs are more likely to develop linkages with local enterprises and supply productive inputs locally.

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Governments should encourage the banking sector to provide credit to SMEs, for example through fiscal incentives.

The establishment of large supermarket chains has even spurred the development of numerous SMEs and micro retail establishments, which were locating in close proximity to these large stores and were benefiting from the more predictable and significant flow of consumers.

The development of innovation, entrepreneurial and technological capabilities as essential inputs for the development and growth of enterprises and

Incentive frameworks linking conservation with productivity and income in rural areas should be systematically developed and target local entrepreneurs.