Departure of business from small communities to urban locations

Adequate consumer services generate increased business operation and money circulation within their own boundaries. The current challenge is relocating appropriate commercial and industrial functions in small communities in which many of the commercial functions have gradually been transferred to the nearest market town. At present, residents of communities in which the stable business section has been reduced spend large amounts on goods and services in nearby large communities; and patterns of buying goods away from home are encouraged by short driving distances involved.

1. Lack of social accounting in the business community
2. Disruptive rural to urban migration

1. Limited availability of public services in small towns
2. Insufficient small businesses
3. Informal sector
4. Ineffectiveness of tradition-bound small business methods
5. Deteriorating community identity

1. Unreliable inventory levels
2. Small resident professional workforce
3. Prohibitive cost of living
4. Limited market development
5. Limited local markets for goods and services
6. Lack of corporate achievements
7. Insufficient local industry planning
8. Inaccessible market and supply centres
9. Discrimination against local community shopping facilities
10. Discouraging conditions for small business
11. Declining local businesses

1. Inadequate urban political machinery

1. Reduced investment in small inner-city enterprises

1. Moving away from small communities

1. Departure
2. Business