Poverty Alleviation Trough Micro and Small Enterprise Development in Cambodia - ILO/UNDP Project CMB/97/021 - Final Report (ILO

Poverty Alleviation Trough Micro and Small Enterprise Development in Cambodia - ILO/UNDP Project CMB/97/021 - Final Report (ILO - UNDP, 2000, 126 p.)

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Foreword

Acronyms used

Executive summary

Recommendations

Part A: Report from ILO mission (June 1999)

1. Background and introduction to the SPPD report

2. Employment and unemployment in Cambodia

3. Government priorities, plans and capacities affecting the MSE sector

4. Micro and small-scale enterprises in Cambodia

5. Constraints on and opportunities for MSE development

6. Rural entrepreneurship in Cambodia

7. Credit for MSE development

8. Vocational training, employment and MSE development

9. Employment for former soldiers and refugees

10. Notes on some resource-based industrial sub-sectors15

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(a) The brick-and-tile industry

(b) The rice milling industry

11. The potential of business associations in private sector development

12. Small scale enterprise and the tourist industry

Annex A.1

(i) References specific to Cambodia

(ii) General bibliography

(iii) List of useful websites

Annex A.2

Tables

Part B: Situation Review 1997 (“stand alone” report)

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List of acronyms

1. Introduction and background

2. Macro-economic framework for micro and small enterprise development in Cambodia

3. Government priorities and plans

4. Legislative, regulatory and incentive framework

5. Brief description of stakeholders in MSE development in Cambodia

6. Main externally assisted programmes for MSE development

7. Constraints and opportunities at the enterprise level

8. Conclusions and issues to be elaborated further

ANNEX 1: Documents

ANNEX 2: List of key persons met

Part C: ILO Recommendation 189 on SMEs (1998)

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