The impact of the South African government's SMME programmes: a ten-year review (1994–2003)

By C. Rogerson. 2004

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Subfields: Business and International Management, Management of Technology and Innovation, Political Science and International Relations

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Citations in the corpus

• Reframing place-based economic development in South Africa: the example of local economic development (2014, background): “…of unemployment and pov- erty alleviation in South Africa (Rogerson, 1996, 1999, 2000; Nel, 2001; Nel, Binns, 2002a, 2003; Abrahams, 2003; Bond, 2003; Rogerson, 2004a, 2004b; Nel, Rogerson, 2005a, 2005b, 2007; Nel et al., 2009; Rogerson, 2009; Rogerson, Rogerson, 2010b, 2011; Rogerson, 2011a,…”
• Pro-Poor local economic development in South Africa: The role of pro-poor tourism (2006, background): “…been discussed elsewhere, the role of tourism in the economy and of tourism policy has shifted fundamentally during the post-apartheid period (Rogerson, 2002c, Spenceley & Seif, 2003; Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism [DEAT], 2003; Rogerson & Visser, 2004; Visser & Rogerson, 2004).”
• Tracking SMME Development in South Africa: Issues of Finance, Training and the Regulatory Environment (2008, background): “The significance of issues concerning finance, training and regulation has been a continuous thread in South African policy discussions about the development of the country’s small, medium and micro-enterprise (SMME) economy for more than a decade (Republic of South Africa 1995; Rogerson 2004a).”
• Invisible But Viable: Recognising Local Markets for Non-Timber Forest Products (2007, background): “…listed above, it has been suggested that this is perhaps because these activities are often viewed as ‘survivalist’ or part-time and therefore of restricted interest in terms of mainstream, market-based development and growth (Mead and Liedholm 1998, Marcus 2000, Rogerson 2000, 2004, Ellis 2001).”
• Second Best? Trends and Linkages in the Informal Economy in South Africa (2006, background): “Most assessments of the NAMAC programme conclude that they have been successful in meeting these objectives (see Rogerson, 2004). However, given their focus on manufacturing, and the nature of their objectives and programmes, the activities of the manufacturing advice centres are unlikely to filter ”
• The role of Small and Medium Scale Enterprise in local economic development (LED) (2017, background): “The vital role the SME sector plays in the South African economy in addressing sustainable development, was highlighted by the 2003 Human Development Report (UNDP, 2003) for South Africa (Rogerson, 2004).”