Thus, the agricultural institutions working in rural development, in an attempt to facilitate rural funding, has been creating alternative sources of funding such as Agricultural and Rural Development Fund (FFADR), Fisheries Development Fund (FFP), Small Industry Development Fund (FFPI), Fund for Agricultural Credit and Rural Development (CCADR), etc.

Furthermore, national youth led business funds could be established in order to provide necessary assistance to young entrepreneurs.

When fixing the minimum wage only the following components have been excluded bonuses for a period of employment (anniversary bonuses), pension bonuses, rewards from an establishment reward fund, bonuses from profit, payments from balance surplus in cooperatives and remuneration for overtime.

The funds for securities investment and other similar funds as held by an enterprise shall not be classified as a loan or account receivable.

In South Africa, a special fund exists to promote inter firm cooperation.

In certain limited business spheres the Enterprise Estonia Foundation offers start up capital to enterprises outside Tallinn that have been active for less than a year.

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A similar initiative is the proposed IFC Biodiversity Enterprise Fund for Latin America.

Summary of the operation of the Fund 1971 through 1997

After this bank was dissolved, two means of acquiring credits were created the Rural Funds (private enterprise for financial mediation for farmers) and the Agricultural Development Funds (Fondeagros) administered by regional governments.

Business and financial sector management

In order to further reduce unemployment among young people in the country, the Government has established the National Youth Fund, which is aimed at assisting the country's young people with funding to establish small scale enterprises.

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Trust fund contributions are provided on a voluntary basis by individual Governments, multilateral donors, NGOs, the enterprise sector and foundations.

70. This involves activities related to the use of the mechanism of investment funds (country funds, venture capital funds or specific sectoral investment funds) to attract foreign investment flows in least developed countries.

The lump sum compensation with respect to permanent or long term impairment of health is paid to employees of State enterprises and members of their families by the enterprise and to employees of privately owned enterprises and their family members by the Social Insurance Institute from the Social Insurance Fund.

35. The representative of Egypt said that, to promote job creation with donor funding, his country had created a Social Fund for Development (SFD), one of whose core objectives was enterprise development.

Consequently, no award was made in respect of one of the two businesses.

12. Invites national and international development entities, foundations and enterprises to explore ways of improving the access of older persons to credit, training and appropriate technologies for income generation and their participation in family, community and small businesses

IFAD International Fund for Agricultural Development

IFAD International Fund for Agricultural Development

244. Unemployment benefits are financed from the Labour Fund, which is the State fund.

Financial establishments, insurance, real estate, and services provided to companies

Third, debts owed by agricultural enterprises to the State should be rescheduled and a special fund set up to provide them, on a competitive basis, with credit facilities and guarantees.

OECD UNCTAD recently participated in the OECD meeting on women entrepreneurs. Active cooperation in the field of accounting for enterprise development in the CIS has been going on since 1991 this year UNCTAD provided the background documents and resource persons on accounting for non bank financial institutions (pension funds, insurance funds, investment funds) for the annual meeting of government representatives in charge of setting accounting standards.

The enterprise s access to preferential finance.

In order to support youth, his Government had established the National Youth Fund aimed at encouraging young people to start their own small enterprises.

(e) Pay The enterprise must remunerate the worker for the time spent on the job in the firm, while the National Employment Fund pays for the time spent on training

Thanks to the support of the Palestinian Fund for Employment and Social Protection (FFESP), UNCTAD resumed training activities in 2005 in support of the Palestinian enterprise sector, which had been suspended for over a year owing to funding shortfalls.

IFAD International Fund for Agricultural Development

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Meanwhile, interest rates on bank loans to nonfinancial enterprises remain close to 7 , despite having fallen slightly over the last year. And, in the second quarter of this year, the annualized interest rate on loans to small nonfinancial corporations surpassed 25 .

See Gareth Porter et al., Global Environment Facility, Study of GEF's Overall Performance (1998) see also GEF OPS2.

84. The occupational workshops are funded by the following sources (a) contributions by firms (b) fees paid by users (c) scholarships granted by the Ministry of Labour and Social Security and funded by the National Employment Fund.

(iii) Contributions income trust funds and Industrial Development Fund (IDF).

Sovereign wealth funds, too, are increasingly involved in financing development. But, despite being state owned and subject to policy decisions, they function as commercial enterprises (with the possible exception of Norway s hydrocarbon funded state owned investment vehicles).

215. The representative stated that a women s development fund had been established in 1994, in order to mobilize resources, provide loans, act as a guarantee fund, create employment and income generation and offer business advisory services for women.

SMEs face basically two major problems in the area of finance the mobilization of start up capital and access to working capital and long term finance for their development.

The Enterprise Estonia Foundation is continuously accepting applications to grant counselling allowances.

The public enterprise sector has had a serious cash problem, compounded by its contribution to the governmental budget the Government owes 87 million to public enterprises.

The 2005 2007 UNCDF Business Plan builds on the niche and comparative advantages of the Fund.

The Executive Board is responsible for the conduct of operations of the Fund and reports to the Governing Council thereon.

Similar principles also underlie the Professional Training and Unemployment Fund and the Medicare Fund.

Experience showed that seed money provided by informal or specialized institutions for SME finance could often play an important role in allowing SMEs to gain access to institutionalized finance.

Employment Provident Fund