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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Challenges facing small and medium-sized enterprises in the Kyrgyz Republic, 1996-7 |
Author: | Anderson, K. Pomfret, R. |
Citation: | Economic Change and Restructuring: an international journal devoted to the study of comparative economics, planning and development, 2001; 11(3):205-219 |
Publisher: | Kluwer Academic Publishers Group |
Issue Date: | 2001 |
ISSN: | 1120-7388 |
Abstract: | Based on high quality household survey data from 1996 and 1997, this paper analyzes the challenges facing non-farm household businesses in the Kyrgyz Republic. The non-farm businesses are small, concentrated in service activities, and rely on family labour. They are new enterprises established after the transition from central planning began, rather than state enterprises formed during the planning era and subsequently privatized. High taxes, low product demand, and high input prices are the three most cited challenges, while the problems facing small businesses do not include credit availability, capacity concerns, input availability, or labour costs. Frequent mention of licence difficulties and extortion, in addition to high taxes, indicates that the grabbing hand of the government is a major obstacle to private businesses. The government is also failing to maintain law and order; in 1996 a quarter of the businesses report violence among their three main challenges. |
Keywords: | Kyrgyz republic SME Transition Economy |
Description: | The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com © Springer. |
DOI: | 10.1023/A:1013101026615 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/a:1013101026615 |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 2 Economics publications |
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