Impact of Government and Other  Institutions’ Support on Performance of Small and Medium Enterprises in the  Agribusiness Sector in Ghana

Ntiamoah, Evans Brako; Li, Dongmei; Kwamega, Michael

doi:10.4236/ajibm.2016.65052

Cited by 29 publications

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“…These government's supports contribute to the increase in business income, jobs opening, more orderly business accounting, and healthier business finances. This is in line with the findings of Ntiamoah, Li, and Kwamega (2016) and Zindiye, Chiliya, and Masocha (2012) that the government and other stakeholders have positive roles on the performance of MSMEs, especially in providing skills training.…”

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confidence: 90%

Women Contribution and Entrepreneurial Marketing to Family Welfare

Sarma¹

2019

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Home industry plays a strategic role to improve the family welfare and reduce poverty. Thus, this study aimed to analyze the influence of family characteristics, women contributions, entrepreneurial marketing, and government supports on the family welfare of home industry entrepreneurs. The study of entrepreneurial marketing in home industry that manage by women is the novelty of this study. To do so, it used a cross-sectional design, and Kendal Regency as the research site which was selected purposively. The sample was selected by convenience sampling technique and consisted of 67 women who had a home industry. Meanwhile the data were collected through interviews by using a questionnaire. Furthermore, the data were analyzed by using multiple regression analysis. The results revealed that the length of woman education showed a significantly positive influence on family welfare (B=62.868, 89; p=0,010). Additionally, the number of family members had a significantly negative influence (B=-220.633, 32; p=0,000) on family welfare. Meanwhile, woman age, women contribution, entrepreneurial marketing, and government supports had no significant influence on family welfare.

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Section: Resultssupporting

confidence: 90%

Women Contribution and Entrepreneurial Marketing to Family Welfare

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2019

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“…Whereas access to financing can give people chance to find their way out of poverty, government support of SMEs in form of loans is not effective due to high interest rates, collateral requirements and complicated processes (Ntiamoah, Li, & Kwamega, 2016). This study recommended effective strategies to increase the growth and productivity of the sector, and establishing an enabling environment that would help in the proper structuring of SMEs in order to contribute to economic growth.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Increased SME growth has a direct effect on GDP growth due to increased output, value addition and profits; bolsters a country's resilience by broadening and diversifying the domestic economy, thereby reducing the vulnerability to sector-specific shocks (Dhliwayo, 2014); provide goods and services to local markets and frequently produces inputs used by large firms, provide employment and income for the majority of the local workers (Directorate of Development of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises, 2011). However, their role can only be realized if there are government supportive policies to help them gain access to capital, technology improvement, quality improvement, skill development and access to both domestic and international markets (Ntiamoah, Li, & Kwamega, 2016).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Human Resource Capabilities, Financial Support and Enterprise Development in Nebbi District, West Nile Region Uganda

Eton¹,

Ebong²,

Mwosi³

et al. 2018

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Abstract:he study examined the role played by Human resource capabilities, financial availability in supporting enterprise development in Nebbi, west Nile region in Uganda. Purposive and simple random sampling was used and the selected sample of participants was 120. The study found out that Enterprise developers seem to understand the role of financial support and that lack of human resource capabilities encounter increased financial cost. Access to credit is still a challenge due to lack of understanding of SMEs by banks. The study recommended that government should support enterprise development by providing an environment which promotes business, provide access to credit, provide affordable interest rates, and provide subsidies to local enterprise developers. Universities should also develop skills that match employment needs.

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“…And the government as a catalyst helps the development of SMEs, by protecting intellectual property and stimulating the growth of SMEs creativity by giving rewards. The role of SMEs in contributing to economic growth is significant if there is a government policy that supports and helps SMEs to gain access to capital, technological improvement, quality improvement, skills development, and able to dominate domestic and international markets (Ntiamoah, Li, & Kwamega, 2016).…”

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The Role of Regional Government in Growing Small and Medium Enterprises’ Performance towards Creative Industry in Jambi Province

Desmaryani¹

2017

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Globalization requires Small and Medium enterprises to increase its existence in order to compete in a global world. Small and Medium enterprises have to always increase the creativity to be able to create products that have innovated. Yet currently, SMEs still have obstacles in increasing its existence, such as the poor ability of businesses, the difficulty of access to capital and does not quickly follow the development of science and technology. The purpose of this study is to determine the role of government to grow the performance of SMEs towards creative industry in Jambi Province. The sampling technique for the location and respondents is in a purposive sampling. The provision of sample site and respondents selection is based on the already defined criteria. For locations, there are 7 (seven) locations selected as the samples and 200 for the sample of respondents. The analysis method used is the descriptive analysis depicting government role in improving SMEs performance. The results of the study explain that the government's support is still low to improve the quality of human resources through education and training. There are still SMEs which have never attended the training because the Department of Industry and Trade has not had a database of SMEs which have attended the training or not. SMEs still have capital problems. The government is not yet optimally introducing technological advances and not yet optimally assisting the development and marketing of products. There is overlapping of the same programs among SKPD that empower SMEs. From the other side, the business climate is already conducive as the government gives ease of permit and smoothness of business. The results of the study recommend (1) to provide education and training equally for SMEs (2) Creation of synergistic between the related SKPD and SMEs (3) Developing microfinance institution to solve the capital problem (3) Jambi Provincial Government needs to build cooperation with universities to do Transfer of science and technology.

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Impact of Government and Other Institutions’ Support on Performance of Small and Medium Enterprises in the Agribusiness Sector in Ghana

Cited by 29 publications

References 19 publications

Women Contribution and Entrepreneurial Marketing to Family Welfare

Women Contribution and Entrepreneurial Marketing to Family Welfare

Human Resource Capabilities, Financial Support and Enterprise Development in Nebbi District, West Nile Region Uganda

The Role of Regional Government in Growing Small and Medium Enterprises’ Performance towards Creative Industry in Jambi Province

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