ANVESHAK-International Journal of Management

Samson Legese Girma ¹, Vikas Barbate ², Prakash N. Chaudhary ³

Affiliations
1 CFMD, Accounting and Finance, ECSU, Adis Ababa, ET
2 Ethiopian Civil Service University's College of Finance, Management and Development, Department of PFM and Accounting, Adis Ababa, ET
3 Department of Business Laws, Ness Wadia College of Commerce, Pune - 411001, Maharashtra, IN

Abstract

This research study aims to Analyze the success factors of Micro and Small business Enterprises (MSEs) in Addis Ababa the case of Arada sub city with a special emphasison both service and industry sectors. General objective of the study is to analyze the success factors of Micro and Small enterprises and the specific objectives of the study is to assess success factors that affect the performance of Micro and small enterprises, assess the socio economic characteristics of Micro and Small enterprises owners/operators and recommend possible solution to alleviate the problem of micro and small enterprises. For the sake of achieving the objectives of this study, questionnaires were analyzed by using the Statistical Package for Social Science version 20. The results of the data were presented in descriptive and in quantitative forms. The information gleaned through questionnaire from a sample of 70 operators of Micro and small enterprises. The respondents were selected using stratified sampling technique. The independent variables for the study are gender, education, age, technology, access to finance, access to market, working environment, ease of regulation and access to network; while, the dependent variable is success of Micro and Small business enterprises. The finding of the study indicates that the major success factor that affect micro and small enterprises are ease of regulation and working environment others are like access to finance, access to network, technology. Based on the findings, the key recommendation are made to the government bodies such as they should provide effective and efficient services to MSEs by giving regular information about their offices, creating sustainable working environment and Strengthening the source of finance of government institutions at different level, to operators of micro and small enterprises. MSEs should form groups and make negotiating power for borrowing purpose and give their employees training. For the further research one can target the medium and larger firms that have dominated the markets.

Keywords

MSEs, Success, Success Factors.

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Aweke Regasa ¹, Vikas Barbate ², Ajit Thite ³

Affiliations
1 CFMD, Accounting and Finance, ECSU, Adis Ababa, ET
2 Ethiopian Civil Service University, Addis Ababa, ET
3 Dattakala Group of Institution, Swami Chincholi, Pune – 413130, Maharashtra, IN

Abstract

The objective of this study is to analyze The Causes of Contraband Trade and its Effect on the collection of Value Added Tax (VAT), the case of Dire Dawa Administration. It also assessed the causes and other socio-economic effects of contraband trade. The study used both quantitative and qualitative research methods to collect and analyze both primary and secondary data. Questionnaires were distributed to the importers, ERCA employees and DDRA employees in order to collect primary data. The Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 24 and STATA 13 were the software's used for quantitative analysis. The study used data from the year 2004 to 2018 for the secondary data analysis. The study discovered that there are two broad categories for the causes of contraband trade: societal and governmental causes. From the societal causes, consumer's preferences to buy goods with lower price, political instability in the border area are identified to be the major ones. Whereas governmental causes are increase in exchange rate and unemployment rate are identified. According to the findings of the study contraband trade has a significant negative effect on the collection of government revenue, increases unemployment rate, market competitiveness of legal traders and political stability of the country. Since VAT is the main government revenue collected both from import and domestic production, the empirical analysis revealed that contraband trade has negative effect on the collection of VAT. Finally, this study forwarded possible recommendations that would help to minimize contraband trade and generate substantial revenue for economic growth of the country.

Keywords

Contraband Trade, Import and Export etc., Value Added Tax.

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