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Small and Medium-Scale Enterprises in Botswana: Their Characteristics, Sources of finance and Problem

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  • Lisenda Lisenda

    (Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis)

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The study analyses the characteristics of Small and Medium-Scale Enterprises (SMEs) in Botswana highlighting the educational background of owners and exposure to business related training, geographic location of enterprises, premises of operation, age of enterprise, and size of enterprise by number of employees, sales and total investment and activity. Also considered are administration and financial sources of the enterprises. Record keeping is assessed by size of enterprise, gender of operator and source of finance of enterprise. Problems faced by SMEs are highlighted.

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  • Lisenda Lisenda, 1997. "Small and Medium-Scale Enterprises in Botswana: Their Characteristics, Sources of finance and Problem," Working Papers 14, Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis.
    • Handle: RePEc:bid:wpaper:14
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    1. Richard Duncombe & Richard Heeks, 2002. "Enterprise across the digital divide: information systems and rural microenterprise in Botswana," Journal of International Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 14(1), pages 61-74.

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