SOCIAL IMPACTS OF MICRO-ENTERPRISES IN NORTH SINAI GOVERNORATE

Document Type : Researches

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1 Dept. Agric. Econ. and Rural Develop., Fac. Environ. Agric. Sci., Arish Univ., Egypt.

2 Dept. Econ. and Rural Develop., Fac. Environ. Agric. Sci., Suez Canal Uni., Arish, Egypt

Abstract

The research aimed to determine the degree to which the social impacts of micro-projects are achieved on education, health, problem solving, enhancing the role of women, the environmental situation, and the degree of their satisfaction with it, and the degree of realization of economic impacts on each of the skill level, family income, housing quality, and job opportunity, reducing risks, the degree of their satisfaction with it, and testing the significance of the relationship between the characteristics of the respondents and the degree of achievement of social and economic influences as a whole and the degree of their satisfaction with it. The research was conducted on a sample of 206 respondents from the owners of micro-enterprises in the centers of Al-Arish and Bir Al-Abd. After collecting the data, it was unloaded and statistically analyzed by iterations. Percentages, weighted mean, and Pearson's simple correlation coefficient. The most important results were as follows: The highest percentage of the respondents falls in the category of the average verification level of social influences on education, health, problem solving, and the environmental situation, The highest percentage of respondents fall into the category of low level of verification and low satisfaction with regard to the economic effects on family income, quality of housing, and availability of work opportunities, The results shows the significance of the relationship between the variables of cultural openness, training, the monthly income of the family and the degree of social and economic influences achieved and the degree of satisfaction with them.

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