Cooperation and Small Industries in South East Asia

Abstract

the role of Cooperation in the modernisation of cottage and small-scale industries in South and South East Asian Countries^. It is not intended to go in great detail into the arguments o f cottage and small-scale industries versus large-scale industries. Nevertheless, it will be useful to indicate very briefly, in the introductory part, the economic justification for the small industry^ within the process o f economic development. It is necessary to do so because it is often assumed, that industrialisation necessarily means establishment of large-scale industries, while emphasis on small industries implies retardation o f economic growth.