Abstract:
The present study intended the title “Institutional Barriers to
Small scale business development in Jaffna District”. Institutional barriers
perform on many levels; from grass-roots contact with possible customers to
political, country-specific agendas and these can be constraints inherent in a
development program. In Northern Province many infrastructure facilities
are now on going. Therefore it is a wonderful opportunity for the youngsters
to develop their entrepreneurial activities. Like other war-time and post-war
countries such as Lebanon, Tanzania and Nigeria start post war development
in country through Small Scale business development. The main objective of
this research was to ascertain the conception of Small scale entrepreneurs
about obstacles they face while developing their Businesses in Jaffna
District There are 113 Small scale businesses in Jaffna District. But the
researcher selected the 50 establishments. It represents 44% of the whole
population. The researchers used convenience random sampling method to
select the small scale entrepreneurs in Jaffna. The structured questionnaire
and Interview were used to collect data and it was analyzed by universal
analysis, by using SPSS computer package such as regression and correlation.
The overall results were found according to the discussion that the
institutional barriers which have adversely affected the small scale business
development in Jaffna district (sig:0.000) and then this study indicates that
awareness (sig:0.001) and competition (sig:0.001) are the most important
barriers to small scale business development. So the research objectives are
achieved through this survey. In addition to the above, this study offers some
suggestion to overcome these barriers
