This report is organized as follows. After this introduction, the second section explains the main data sources used in the study. The third section discusses the relationship between sectoral output growth and employment generation, and presents basic estimates on growth elasticities. The...

The small firm has increasingly become the focus of public policy designed to decrease unemployment in the developed and less developed countries. In the 1970s, international organisations started to advocate the promotion of SMEs in LDCs to alleviate the problems of unemployment. It is argued...