Problem
Unrelated pioneer institutions
Other Names:
Missing institutionsObstacles to industrial development
Absence of industrial support services
Uncoordinated business development
Nature:
Pioneer industries in developing areas are likely to suffer from the absence of other establishments to which waste by-products might be passed. They may also be handicapped by the absence of institutions which in a more developed society would help to improve the skill of the labour force and facilitate the raising of capital. Where the work requires it, a new factory may have to organize its own training facilities – again a cost-raising expedient – but the lack of financial institutions is likely to be less tractable. This is a deterrent to industrial investment partly because it makes more difficult the raising of local capital and partly because it tends to reduce the liquidity of investment in secondary industry. In much the same way, the day-to-day operations of a manufacturing establishment are likely to be less smooth and hence less efficient, because of the absence of many of the services of insurance, credit and banking institutions which are part of the normal environment of an industrial economy.
Broader Problems:
Inadequate infrastructureEconomic underdevelopmentUndeveloped business supportUnattractive development sitesInsufficient enabling structuresDeficiencies of developing countriesRestrictive effects of tradition-bound community decision-making Related Problems:
Uncoordinated use of computers and automation Aggravates:
Lack of local industriesRegional maldistribution of industryDiscrimination against community enterprisesUncoordinated development of economic sectorsInadequate industrial trade in developing countriesInadequate development of enterprises in developing countriesReduced access to institutional resources Strategies:
Training in industrial developmentCoordinating business developmentRelating pioneer institutionsProviding industrial support servicesControlling industrial expansion References:
United Nations: Industrialization of Developing Countries: problems and prospectsvan der Geest, Willem and van der Hoeven, Rolph: Adjustment, Employment and Missing Institutions in Africa Subject(s):
Commerce → Business enterprisesDevelopment → Development
Industry → Industry
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
Problem Type:
F: Fuzzy exceptional problems Date of last update
04.10.2020 – 22:48 CEST