Sargant Florence pointed out long ago that broad technological factors seemed to underlie inter-industry differences in the typical size of plants. Much attention has been paid in several other recent studies to factors affecting average size of plants in industries and its variations among...

An important issue that confronts small sector development policy in manufacturing is the question of whether small-scale plants are in the long-run viable or must they disappear in the development process. This question is important because answers to it may indicate whether small-scale plants...

The problem of how to make an optimum use of a country's limited productive resources is often a crucial one to the policy makers in less developed countries (LDCs). Not surprisingly, therefore, the various methods of cost-benefit analysis have attracted much attention among professional...