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Title: INFORMATION BEHAVIOUR OF FINANCIERS OF MICRO ENTREPRENEUERS OF SRI LANKA


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INFORMATION BEHAVIOUR OF FINANCIERS OF
MICRO ENTREPRENEUERS OF SRI LANKA
Shivanthi Weerasinghe Librarian Bank of Ceylon
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MICRO ENTREPRENEURS
-Very small enterprises
-Survival measure
-Lack funds/capital
-Important segment of the economy
-Products for Local Market
-Low income buyers
-Contributes to entrepreneurship
-Create/Generate employment
-Poverty Reduction
-Financial Assistance is necessary
3
INFORMATION
  • -Necessary input
  • -Not available adequately
  • - Poverty
  • -Non awareness
  • -No proper contacts
  • - Problem of language

4
FINANCIERS
  • -Provides Financial Assistance
  • -Support Services
  • -Information
  • -Skills Development
  • -Commercial Banks
  • -Development Banks
  • -NGOs
  • -Samurdhi Banks
  • -Co-op Dev Banks

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INFORMATION BEHAVIOUR
Inflow Organisation Outflow
  • Inflow

-What - Types of Information used -
Sources of information -How - Access
  • Organization and Management
  • Outflow
  • -What Types of information
  • -How

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TYPES OF INFORMATION USED
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  • Information Sources
  • Non Institutional Sources
  • - Seminars and Workshop proceedings
  • - Government Publications
  • - Feasibility Studies
  • - Newspaper Articles
  • - Periodicals
  • - Newsletter
  • - Books .Usage was comparatively low
  • Institutional Sources
  • - IDB
  • - Ministries
  • - Provincial Councils
  • - Divisional Secretariats
  • - EDB

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  • Access to Information
  • High
  • Personal Contacts
  • Media
  • Low
  • -Library (Institutional)
  • (Individual responses of some
  • institutions were high)
  • - Commercial Banks
  • - Development Banks
  • - NGOs
  • -Library (Other Institutions)

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  • Organization and Management of
  • Information

- Individual persons - No
centralized method - Special person/Database -
Scattered in Department - Libraries
  • Problems in information use
  • - Lack of up to date publications
  • - Awareness
  • - Transparency

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Outflow Dissemination of Information
  • What
  • Types of information mostly disseminated to the
    users

- High Financial Schemes Market Opportunities
Economic Information Investments/Savings
- Medium Raw materials and supplies
Training Legal/insurance market locations
Competitors
- Low Weather Standards
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Outflow
  • How
  • - Information provision
  • Verbally Person to person
  • Meetings, Seminars/Workshops
  • Pamphlets
  • Newsletters
  • Feasibility Studies

- Referral services
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Business Success
  • Positive Effects on
  • - Enterprises

Employment Expansion
Diversification Retaining of enterprises

- Personal
Savings Personal Investment
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Recommendations
  • LIS Provision
  • Integrated approach of information management
  • - Coordination
  • - Central location
  • Networks
  • User surveys/ comparative studies
  • Research
  • - Enterprises
  • - Geographical/Administrative
    Area
  • - Sector-wise
  • - Demand and supply of information
  • Knowledge Base

Contd..
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  • Recommendations
  • Training and Education
  • Use of more trade associations
  • Studies on types of information used at a
  • lesser extent
  • Publicity
  • Establishment of libraries/information centers

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