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Declining local businesses

Visualization of narrower problems
Name(s): 
Uncommitted local industries
Unviable small work establishments
Unprofitable small businesses
Unviable commercial ventures
Broader 
Dim business future
Depressed industries
Lack of local commercial services
Demoralizing image of urban community identity
Narrower 
Uneconomical small farms
Unprofitable home industries
Unprofitable transport business
Small business failures
Decline of handicrafts and cottage industries
Discouraging conditions for small business
Unprofitable scope of rural industrial operations
Related 
Insufficient small businesses
Restrictions against small enterprise
Occupational hazards to workers in small industries
This problem is a member of 23 aggravating loops
Aggravates 
Informal sector [in 10 loops]
Lack of local industries
Unfulfilled aspirations of economic life
Diminishing capital investment in small communities [in 2 loops]
Departure of business from small communities to urban locations [in 15 loops]
Aggravated by 
Crime reduces profitability
Insufficient local industry planning
Inadequate small-town business skills
Subsistence approach to capital resources
Lack of support for local commercial services
Untapped potential for retail trade in small towns
Reduced by 
Growing size and impersonality of firms
Value(s) 
Work
Decline
Inviability
Nonlocal
Overwork
Uncommitted
Unprofitable
Type 
(D) Detailed problems

About the Encyclopedia

The Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential is a unique, experimental research work of the Union of International Associations. It is currently published as a searchable online platform with profiles of world problems, action strategies, and human values that are interlinked in novel and innovative ways. These connections are based on a range of relationships such as broader and narrower scope, aggravation, relatedness and more. By concentrating on these links and relationships, the Encyclopedia is uniquely positioned to bring focus to the complex and expansive sphere of global issues and their interconnected nature.

The initial content for the Encyclopedia was seeded from UIA’s Yearbook of International Organizations. UIA’s decades of collected data on the enormous variety of association life provided a broad initial perspective on the myriad problems of humanity. Recognizing that international associations are generally confronting world problems and developing action strategies based on particular values, the initial content was based on the descriptions, aims, titles and profiles of international associations.

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