TABLE OF CONTENTS
TITLE PAGE
CERTIFICATION
DEDICATION
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
TABLE OF CONTENT
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
- BACKGROUND TO
THE STUDY
- STATEMENT OF THE STUDY
- AIMS AND OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY
- SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
- SCOPE OF THE STUDY
- LIMITATION OF THE STUDY
- RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW
- CONCEPT OF SMALL SCALE BUSINESS
- SMALL SCALE BUSINESS IN NIGERIA
- CONCEPTUALIZATION ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT II
- RELEVANCE OF SMALL SCALE BUSINESS IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
- TYPES OF SMALL SCALE INDUSTRIES
- SOURCES OF FINANCIAL SMALL SCALE BUSINESS
- PROBLEMS OF SMALL SCALE INDUSTRIES IN THE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS.
CHAPTER THREE : RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
- INTRODUCTION
- RESEARCH STUDY AREA
- RESEARCH POPULATION AND SAMPLE
- RESEARCH INSTRUMENT
- VALIDITY OF THE INSTRUMENT
- ADMINISTRATION OF THE INSTRUMENT
- METHOD OF DATA ANALYSIS.
CHAPTER FOUR: PRESENTATION AND ANALYSIS OF RESULT
- INTRODUCTION
- PREVIEW OF THE QUESTIONNAIRE ADMINISTERED
- PRESENTATION OF RESULT
CHAPTER FIVE
- SUMMARY
- CONCLUSION
- RECOMMENDATION
REFERENCE
APPENDIX
CHAPTER ONE
- BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
The guest for economic development ensure overall improvement in individual well being of citizen as been the pre occupation of every nation. The process involves a number of approaches. One of these is the adoption of an industrialization strategy at a point in time relevant to the prevailing needs of development. Developing countries are under much pressure in this regard because of their general peculiar features which among other include concentration of high proportion growth low level of savings, general poverty of various dimension, poor credit and marketing facility etc (on wumere, 2000)
in fact many developing countries have attached high priority to the industrial sector in their development plans possibly as a result of their attraction to many development theories that have tended to see industrialization as the gateway to modernization Nigeria, like many of them had on gaining political independence, adopted import substitution as her industrialization strategy. Thus should not be surprising, because even as at today. Most of the rich advanced countries are rich because they are industrialized.
Incidentally, the past policies and strategies failed to generate self sustaining growth largely because of their reference establishment of large scale firm. Resources (human and material) had largely idled in the face of mounting problems
Since the 1970s, therefore, developing countries have been compelled, in the face of thus problems to look for alternative approaches to development. One of these approaches has been the redirection o f efforts and encouragement of small and medium scale enterprises (SMES). Since the introduction. However, the role of small scale industries on the economic development of Nigeria has help the economy to improve to a maximum level unlike when Nigeria use to import all her need from the overseas countries which of course made the economy worse that time (Oshagbemi, 2000).
The contribution of SMES to the development process are such that any country are such that any country can only ignore its own peril. Hence, there is need to evaluate the impact of small scale business on economic development
- STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
Development strategies in the past had favoured large scale concerns which had not yielded much desired not returns to their economic. The quest for economic development to ensure over all improvement in individual well-being of citizens then become the occupation of every nation, hence an attempt to incorporate the small and medium scale industries then become important with the incorporation, has thus been able to foster economic development in the Nigerian own situation? This become a problem which this study tries to proffer solution to, so as to evaluate its importance on the economic development of Nigeria.
