Educating and Empowering Entrepreneurs through Local Community Project in Malaysia ??" Financial Problems in SDSI Program

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10.2991/icems-17.2018.49How to use a DOI?

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empowering local community, entrepreneurship development, financial problems

Abstract

The One District One Industry program locally known as SDSI (Satu Daerah Satu Industri) initiated by the Malaysian government has begun to show the positive economic impact on rural entrepreneurs. In thriving for successful, the entrepreneurs faced a lot of obstacles and problems, particularly in finance problem. The main objective of this study is to examine the financial problems faced by the SDSI entrepreneurs. This research is a quantitative study which involving 206 entrepreneurs as respondents. SPSS was used and descriptive analyses such as cross tab, frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation employed for describing the general data of the study. Results showed that cash flow and mortgage were the main financial problems faced by a majority of the respondents. To address these issues, it is recommended that government support for the entrepreneurs be further strengthened emphasizing on continuous training and education programs.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Azizan Asmuni
AU  - Hayrol Ag Shaffril
AU  - Jasmin Arif Shah
AU  - Husnina Yusoff
PY  - 2017/10
DA  - 2017/10
TI  - Educating and Empowering Entrepreneurs through Local Community Project in Malaysia ??" Financial Problems in SDSI Program
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Education in Muslim Society (ICEMS 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 260
EP  - 263
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icems-17.2018.49
DO  - 10.2991/icems-17.2018.49
ID  - Asmuni2017/10
ER  -