Effect of Electricity Services on Microenterprise: Evidence from Ganaja Village, Kogi State, Nigeria

What is it about?

The study employed descriptive statistics to examine the role of electricity services on micro-enterprises establishment, growth, expansion, decline, and closure in rural Ganaja. Data were obtained from one hundred micro-enterprises located in Ganaja village of Kogi State, Nigeria.

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Why is it important?

Despite the importance, contributions, and potential of Micro-enterprises in the Nigerian economy, there are several factors that hinder their establishment, growth, decline and closure. Electricity services is one of the factors which may cause problems because modern electrical appliances such as welding kits and machinery which may pave the way to small and cottage industries cannot be used without accessible and dependable electricity services . Moreover, there is a very little understanding of the linkages between uses and effect of electricity services and micro enterprises establishment, survival, expansion, growth, decline, and closure in rural areas in developing countries in general. In addition, there are no studies, to the best of our knowledge which concretely assessed the actual influence of electricity services upon microenterprises development in the rural Ganaja.

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