ABSTRACT
This paper analysed the contribution of small-scale business to National Economic Growth and Development in the Country. It also paid attention to the foundling of these enterprises.
Where as failure of the large-scale import department assembly to propel the country into a satisfactory course of industrialization necessitate the demagnification of strategy to embrace the promotion of small-scale enterprises achievement under the new strategy has not been adequate with expectations of the stated objectives which were economic growth and development through the mobilization of available local resources, employment generation and industrial dispersal as well as mitigation of rural urban migration. This paper identified this lack of list achievement with problems associated with severe lack of managerial and technical skills among Nigerian small-scale industrialists, inadequate of financial resources as well as infrastructural deficiencies.
Chapter one contains a general discussion of the contribution of small-scale business to economic growth and development as seen by different people. It went further to state the problem to be studied and why this study was carried out, the scope and limitation of the study and finally the proposition and the definition of terms.
A number of past related literature examined by other studies as it relates to the contribution of small-scale business in Nigeria are highlighted in chapter two.
Chapter three deals with the design of the study, the methods used in collecting relevant data. It also deals with way the questionnaires were distributed and the treatment of data, and statistical techniques used.
The data got from the research survey were analysed and interpreted. Also similar questions on both questionnaires were compared in chapter four.
Finally, the summary of findings conclusion in the research and recommendation made by the researcher are all in chapter five.
If small-scale business will put the recommendation on how to achieve economic growth and development to use, such as increasing availability of credit by raising interest rate ceiling and permitting a “spread” that makes it worthwhile for banks to lend to small-scale business or by increasing the number and range of investment etc. problems of small-scale business will be a thing of the past.
INTRODUCTION
The contribution of small –scale business in fostering economic growth and development has been well articulated in different areas of this study .the specific attention on them based on their expected impact and potential contribution on broad and diversified production base, as well as their accelerative effect in achieving macro objectives pertaining to full employment, income distribution and the development of local technology. They are particularly most conducive for diffusion of management skills and emulation of indigenous entrepreneurship overtime.
Small business provides financial opportunity and a chance to develop wealth. It is a place where creative, motivated individuals can use their talents and expertise to the fullest, because it provides satisfying carecrs and job opportunities and its also the back bone of the market economy of the word. Every big business starts as a small business, and it started with an entrepreneur (small business), who at first, earns little or no profit. It was the new ideas of small business that brought about Ekene Dili Chwkwu Transport, the FAN Milk, Nnewi “Tokumbo” parts, and even the many commercial banks in Nigeria. Untried ideas become annulations that become concepts that changed the business world. And so it goes. Small business is the basis for the economic well being many developed nations including USA/Japan.
Entrepreneurship is what makes a small business successful. Entrepreneurship occurs when an individual develops a new venture, a new approach to an old business or idea, or a unique way of giving the market place a product or service by using resources in a new way under conditions of risk. Small business triumphs and entrepreneurship are closely related to it. It is difficult to separate them.
The unemployment situation in the country coupled with the new government instinctive towards easing social tensions among unemployed youths, through the programme of the National Directorate of Employment (NDE), were intended to lure a lot of unemployed Nigerians, including graduates into self determination through self employment. Graduates and school leavers are now realizing that government and the established private companies are not ready to come to their aid directly, through paid employment due to the dividing state of the economy. Short of the alternatives, Nigerians including our graduates are therefore launching themselves into various small-scale business ventures, such as cottage soap and cosmetics production, fairing, restaurants, fast food, publishing, writing, block making, garri processing, food processing, refuse disposal, taxi driving, cleaning services, weaving, baking tailoring, advertising and other sam business venture which depends mostly on local raw materials. The determination to succeed is also fast becoming the order of the day.
Government has been playing appreciative tole in promoting the survival and growth of small-scale enterprise in recognition of them flexible and adaptive nature as well as their re-generative power in promoting economic growth and development. Government also encourage people to establish their own small business so as to reduce the problem of unemployment in the country and also reduce the problem of importation of goods, moreso, to produce exportation products.
Government in believing that a dynamic and growing small manufacturing sub-sector can contribute significantly to the implementation of a wide range development effectives, has thus enunciated various policies to encourage their proliferation and make them veritable engines of growth and development. In the third and for the development plans and the on-going three years rolling plan, priority has been accorded industrialization with greater emphasis on small-scale enterprises. The basic activities of government policies as maintained in the monetary and fiscal policy measures, are to improve the financing and other supportive services of small-scale business by expanding and improving access to credit and infrastructural facilities, reducing their production costs, boosting their profitability, enhancing their survival and growth capacities as well as expanding their contributions to non-oil exports by making their products competitive in the export markets.
Hardly could any major industry succeed without the services of small-business enterprise. The major goals of any profit oriented business is to make profit. A company will make more profit if statistics it’s customers need better them the competitors. There fore in the contribution of small-scale business, bakeries would produce what the customers want and by sodoing they maximize profit and only bakeries that are effective and efficient can satisfy customers needs. In reality, it is possible to run a business without profit for a time, but it is not possible for to survive for one day without customers. Customers are the central theme of any business. Without a total commitment to them, contribution to economic growth and development will have limited and brief effects.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Title page
Approval page
Dedication
Acknowledgement
Abstract
CHAPTER ONE
1.0 INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background to the study
1.2 Statement of problem
1.3 Need for the study
1.4 Purpose of study
1.5 Scope of the study
1.6 Limitation of the study
1.7 Hypothesis
1.8 Definition of terms
CHAPTER TWO
2.0 REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
2.1 Nature and scope of small-scale business
2.2 Factors that effect small-scale business
2.3 The role of small-scale business in economic growth
2.4 Starting a small business
2.5 Government policies for promoting small-scale business
2.6 The economic imperative of small business development in Nigeria
2.7 Importance of small business enterprises
2.8 Advantages of small-scale business
2.9 Advantages of self employment
CHAPTER THREE
3.1 Design of the study/methodology
3.2 Population for the study
3.3 Development of research materials
3.4 Research procedure
3.5 Analysis of data
3.6 Statistical techniques.
CHAPTER FOUR
4.1 Presentation, analysis and interpretation of data
4.2 Test of hypothesis
CHAPTER FIVE
5.1 Summary of findings
5.2 Conclusion
5.3 Recommendation
5.4 Suggestion for further research
5.5 Bibliography
5.6 Appendix