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ENCYCLOPEDIA

OF WORLD PROBLEMS

AND HUMAN POTENTIAL

  2. World problems
  3. Declining local businesses

Declining local businesses

  • Uncommitted local industries
  • Unviable small work establishments
  • Unprofitable small businesses
  • Unviable commercial ventures

Broader

Lack of local commercial services
Presentable
Depressed industries
Presentable
Demoralizing image of urban community identity
Presentable
Dim business future
Yet to rate

Narrower

Uneconomical small farms
Presentable
Discouraging conditions for small business
Presentable
Decline of handicrafts and cottage industries
Presentable
Unprofitable transport business
Unpresentable
Small business failures
Unpresentable
Unprofitable scope of rural industrial operations
Yet to rate
Unprofitable home industries
Yet to rate

Aggravates

Informal sector
Excellent
Diminishing capital investment in small communities
Presentable
Departure of business from small communities to urban locations
Presentable
Unfulfilled aspirations of economic life
Yet to rate
Lack of local industries
Yet to rate

Aggravated by

Untapped potential for retail trade in small towns
Presentable
Subsistence approach to capital resources
Presentable
Lack of support for local commercial services
Presentable
Inadequate small-town business skills
Presentable
Insufficient local industry planning
Yet to rate
Crime reduces profitability
Yet to rate

Reduced by

Growing size and impersonality of firms
Unpresentable

Related

Occupational hazards to workers in small industries
Presentable
Restrictions against small enterprise
Unpresentable
Insufficient small businesses
Yet to rate

Value

Work
Yet to rate
Unprofitable
Yet to rate
Uncommitted
Yet to rate
Overwork
Yet to rate
Nonlocal
Yet to rate
Inviability
Yet to rate
Decline
Yet to rate

SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #8: Decent Work and Economic GrowthSustainable Development Goal #12: Responsible Consumption and Production

Metadata

Database
World problems
Type
(D) Detailed problems
Biological classification
N/A
Subject
  • Commerce » Business enterprises
  • Commerce » Commerce
  • Commerce » Finance
  • Industry » Industry
  • Social activity » Work
  • Society » Local
    • Content quality
    Unpresentable
     Unpresentable
    Language
    English
    1A4N
    G9007
    DOCID
    11790070
    D7NID
    133257
    Last update
    Oct 4, 2020