Japan, to be sure, did not stand idly by it poured in capital and technologies to support these countries growth. Both the US and Japan fostered prosperity the seedbed for peace in the region.

This is particularly the case of the agriculture based economies in Africa and LDCs, where most of the poor are living, and for which the development of an SME agro industrial sector would contribute to poverty alleviation Small enterprises constitute the seedbed for entrepreneurship which is crucial to the process of increasing productivity.