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finances allow women to be organized under cooperatives for the purpose of acquiring finance even without collaterals. Cooperatives give these entrepreneurs an opportunity of sharing skills, knowledge and experiences for one common goal which is organizational success (Hisrich, 2005). World Bank (2005), ILO (2003),Samiti (2006), Tan (2000) and SMIDEC(2004) addressed that women entrepreneurs in MSEs are affected by a number of economic, social/cultures and legal/administrative factors. Some of the findings of this study go in line with these and some others go against. The performance of women entrepreneurs in MSEs in Dessie town are highly affected by economic factors such as lack of own premises (land), financial problems, stiff competition in the market, inadequate access to trainings, lack of technology and raw material. In contrast to the findings of World Bank, ILO Samiti, Tan and SMIDEC, this study found that infrastructures and access to information are not problems of women entrepreneurs in MSEs in Dessie town. This may be attributed to different reasons. First, since the study is conducted in Dessie town, these problems may not be observed as compared to women entrepreneurs in rural areas. Secondly, since the studies were done some years before, certain changes may be seen in between. With regard to socio-cultural conditions, conflicting gender roles, lack of social acceptability and network with outsiders are the Sever factors that affect women entrepreneurs in Dessie. However, class biases, gender inequalities, attitude of employees towards the business and harassments are not problems of entrepreneurs in the town in contrast to other researcher’s findings. Besides to the above justifications, the reasons for such changes may be better access to media and other facilities that may change the society’s attitude. 58
In relation to legal/administrative issues, network with administrative bodies, access to policy makers, amount of tax and interest rate charged, bureaucracies and red tapes and the overall legal and administrative environmental factors are the serious problems of women entrepreneurs in MSEs in the town. But, issues related to government incentives, legal, instructional and policy constraints, assistance and support from government bodies and request of collateral for borrowing money are not found to be problems of women entrepreneurs in MSEs. This highlights that there are some beginnings in encouraging women entrepreneurs in MSEs even though this is not believed to be satisfactory. From the major factors that affect the performance of women entrepreneurs in MSEs, the impact of the economic environment is significant even though the influence of social factors is minimal. This implies, the impact of globalization is reflected in women entrepreneurs in MSEs; but the attitude of the society towards women entrepreneurs seems to be relatively changed. The supports that TVET institutes/colleges provide to women entrepreneurs in MSEs are stronger in the areas of technology, machines, technical skill trainings, facility supports, and machine maintenance trainings. In the contrary, marketing trainings, plan and reporting trainings, entrepreneurship trainings, financial supports, machine gifts, raw material supports and customer service trainings are weak. This indicates that TVETs are emphasizing on technical trainings. They do not give a comparable value to business trainings and other supports. Therefore it is possible to conclude that, even though the establishments of different municipality services, TVETs, MSEs and micro finances institutions/college are seen in different towns, the problems identified in this research shows that all are not doing what is expected of them. That is the municipalities in providing working premises (land), the TVETs in training entrepreneurs, the micro finances in providing financial supports, and MSEs in recruiting and selecting the youth. All these are joint responsibilities among these stakeholders in bringing women entrepreneurs in MSEs in to high performance. That is why the researcher concludes that much is not done in this regards. 59
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Contents Page ACK
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LIST OF TABLES Table 1 Pros and con
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ABSTRACT This study was designed to
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