Policy Support and Performance of Small and Medium Scale Enterprises in South-West Nigeria

This study sets out to investigate the impact of technological, infrastructure and financial supports on the performance of small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs) in Nigeria. Because of the largeness of the number of SMEs in different sectors of Nigeria, the coverage of the research work is narrowed down to bakery enterprises in South West Nigeria. Primary data were employed to elicit information from 144 bakery firms from South West Nigeria. The primary data were sourced using interview schedule and questionnaire administration. A model of three (3) linear equations was formulated capturing the variables of performance, technology, infrastructure and finance. In all, a total of twelve (12) variables were used in the analysis; they are: outpu