ABSTRACT
My research work revealed that the continuous failure of small-scale industries negates the struggle by the government to revamption of the economy. The effects of this on the economy are â€" food scarcity unemployment, increase in social ills, adverse balance of payment position experience by the country reduction in per capital income etc. These problems if not adequately checked may result to a total collapse of the economy. In almost every country, small-scale industry constitutes a greater part of all industries establishment. It has a strategic role to play in the economic development of industrially less advance economies like ours and remains important in the economics of the more highly industrialized nation.
This study was carried out basically to probe into the causes of failure of small-scale industries in Nigeria, with particular reference to Enugu State. The study also aimed at enlightening the very many Nigerians who engage in small-scale industries and those who intend to go into these industries they might step to take for the economic survival of their enterprise.
I wished to make small-scale industrialist in the state who lack marketing knowledge realize the problems facing them and offer some prescriptions for putting the ailing patient back on itâ€s feet.
