The 1998 Survey of Small Business Finances provides robust information on the financing of small businesses including … in this study to compare the financial characteristics of urban and rural small businesses. Overall, rural small … when comparing dollar values of urban and rural small businesses because normality assumptions were violated due to the …

The 1998 Survey of Small Business Finances provides robust information on the financing of small businesses including … in this study to compare the financial characteristics of metro and rural small businesses. While many financial … characteristics are similar, rural small businesses do own more land and depreciable assets, and have lower inventory and other …

The 1998 Survey of Small Business Finances provides robust information on the financing of small businesses including … an overview of their firm's organization, financial characteristics, and credit use. Information from the survey is used … in this study to compare the financial characteristics of food manufacturing and retailing small businesses. On average …

The 1998 Survey of Small Business Finances provides robust information on the financing of small businesses including … an overview of their firm's organization, financial characteristics, and credit use. Information from the survey is used … in this study to compare the financial characteristics of food manufacturing and retailing small businesses. On average …

Disasters are bad for business specifically for small and medium enterprises (SMEs). These catastrophic events can … compromise capital, logistics, product market, and labor, which compromise business continuity and recovery. Physical damage and … disruptions in supply and labor can cause temporary business closure while structural repairs to buildings and recovery or …

This paper asks how do small firms behave and what is their role in Indian economic development. It examines aggregate … descriptions of small firms in India: their role in economic development, the industry by industry variation in their relative … theoretical and empirical issues are taken up. The small firms' response to government policy is also examined. …

more alike. However, trespassing entrepreneurship is probably mostly a rural or small town phenomenon, since the links … business and community entrepreneurship. The purpose is to explore two questions: How do ‘trespassing entrepreneurs’ combine … business and community enterprise? Why do entrepreneurs engage themselves in both business and community development? A sample …

study area located in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. It determines how increased rural incomes are spent on a … mix of goods and services, and debates the implications of these spending patterns for growth in rural areas through the … literature on the possible impact of promoting smallholder agriculture in South Africa on rural livelihoods. …

This study focuses on the longstanding impoverishment of the rural South and three of its subregions-Appalachia, the … Mississippi Delta, and the Black Belt. The poor quality of life in rural Appalachia and along the Mississippi Delta has been … the South as a whole is more rural and impoverished than other U.S. regions, this is largely due to the poor conditions in …

Most of the population of Nigeria is rural and agriculture is the mainstay of the impoverished people’s livelihood …. This paper estimated the determinants of rural poverty in Nigeria using the Tobit regression model. Through the multistage … sampling technique, primary data were obtained from 150 rural farming households using a questionnaire. The Result of Tobit …