Esensi Bantuan Pemerintah Kabupaten Badung Terhadap Keberdayaan Masyarakat
Community empowerment is a concept that summarizes the economic development of social values. This concept reflects the new development paradigm, namely "people centered, participatory, empowering, and sustainable". This concept is broader than merely satisfy basic needs or provide a mechanism to prevent further impoverishment (safety net), whose thinking recently been developed as an effort to find an alternative to the concepts of growth in the past. Empowerment aims to encourage the community that is still below the poverty line by collectively involved in the decision-making process, including overcoming the unsatisfied condition that there are filled. Empowerment was also marked by the increasing capacity of the population collectively in managing development organizations independently
Regional SMEs and Competition in the Wake of the Financial and Economic Crisis
The Asian financial and economic crisis had widespread effects, many of which are still in the process of being resolved. While the region consists of many diverse, although closely integrated, economies, a common characteristic is the significance of a sizeable and rapidly expanding SME sector. However, given such diversity, it can be reasonably expected that the SMEs in these economies are at different stages of development, their contributions to the respective economies are different, and policies adopted in these economies as a means of encouraging their development will also diverge. While they may face similar general difficulties such as: access to finance; access to technology; development of human resources; and access to market information, it is unlikely that these difficulties are inherently identical, and hence appropriate policies to stimulate their recovery are also unlikely to be identical across these varying economies. However, what is clear is that these SMEs, in the wake of the financial and economic crisis of 1997/98 and the immense restructuring across the region that is taking place with the objective of producing transparent, efficient and globally competitive corporate sectors, are in a strong position to lead the economic recovery of the region arising from increased business opportunities.
Small business and job creation: Dissecting the myth and reassessing the facts
This paper investigates how job creation and destruction behavior varies by employer size in the U.S. manufacturing sector during the period 1972 to 1988. The paper also evaluates the empirical basis for conventional claims about the job-creating prowess of small businesses. The chief findings and conclusions fall into five categories:(1)Conventional wisdom about the job-creating prowess of small businesses rests on misleading interpretations of the data.(2)Many previous studies of the job creation process rely upon data that are not suitable for drawing inferences about the relationship between employer size and job creation.(3)Large plants and firms account for most newly-created and newly-destroyed manufacturing jobs.(4)Survival rates for new and existing manufacturing jobs increase sharply with employer size.(5)Smaller manufacturing firms and plants exhibit sharply higher gross rates of job creation but not higher net rates.