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Patrone, A.
Flexible training methodologies for small Latin American entrepreneurs

Montevideo: Cinterfor, 1997
54p. (Technical office papers,3)

(Full text only available in Spanish pdf format)

 

The transformations having taken place in the economic, social and labour spheres of countries of the region have resulted in a dynamic training offer, particularly in sectors which, owing to their importance for the growth of production and employment, more urgently require the adequate training of their manpower.

Perhaps the most critical group in that respect are small enterprises, of great diversity and weight in the productive process.

The research effort concerning this sector in Latin America and the Caribbean as recorded in this paper (one more instance of the collaboration of the Turin Centre with Cinterfor/ILO) realistically shows that the road to incorporate small employers into productive processes is paved with difficulties.

Such hitches are clearly described in this study, that is basically a report on the flexible training project for small and medium-sized concerns conducted by the Regional Programme for Latin America and the Caribbean of the ILO International Training Centre. That project, currently under way, has the co-operation of institutions giving support and training to small and micro-entrepreneurs in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay, countries that already have institutional structures for the promotion of the entrepreneurial sector.

 

 

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