Financing Small Business in America: Debt Capital in a Global Economy

by Roger E. Hamlin, Thomas S. Lyons

Overview

Examining the role of the public sector in small-business debt-capital formation, this book describes current approaches, conceptually and pragmatically, and evaluates their advantages and disadvantages from a variety of perspectives. It also suggests a model for improving our approach to small business capital formation in the United States.

Financing small business creation and expansion has always been difficult. Private debt capital providers tend to avoid small business because the latter are preceived to be too risky. Yet because of the importance of small businesses to national economic growth, stability, and innovation, ensuring that these businesses can obtain and effectively use appropriate levels of debt capital is vital to national well-being. How, and to what extent, should the public sector intervene in the debt capital markets to ensure that sufficient capital flows to small businesses? This book is an attempt to answer that question.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780275976736
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	10/30/2003
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.44(d)

About the Author

ROGER E. HAMLIN is Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, Professor of Public Administration, and Research Fellow in the Institute for Public Policy and Social Research at Michigan State University. He and Thomas S. Lyons are co-authors of Creating an Economic Development Action Plan: A Guide for Development Professionals, Revised and Updated Edition (Praeger, 2001), and Economy without Walls: Managing Local Development in a Restructuring World (Praeger, 1996).

THOMAS S. LYONS is Associate Professor of Urban and Public Affairs, University of Louisville. He is the Director of the Master of Urban Planning Program and founding Director of the Center for Research on Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development.

Table of Contents

Illustrations
Introduction
U.S. Small Businesses and the Global Economy
The Importance of Debt Capital to Small Business
Current Approaches to Debt-Capital Formatiion: Micro- and Direct Lending Programs
Indirect Approaches to Leveraging Private Capital
Summary and Conclusion
Index