The scope will usually be business to business services.

The range of business services to which SMEs need access reflects the fact that SMEs must rely on external resources for services which larger firms can provide in house.

Businesses associated with manufacturing represent 18 and those with services 12 .

Previously, these services were available only for business to business operations, mainly tour operators and travel agencies.

67. Productive enterprises and the services that support their trading activities all depend on people.

A trade structure involving many enterprises, particularly SMEs, will require widely available and accessible trade related services and a closer integration of the services of key sectors, whereas a trading structure involving a few large enterprises will tend to have many of the trade related services in the enterprises themselves, with a low level of availability and accessibility to newcomers.

22. The nature of the services required by SMEs must be defined on the basis of the typical characteristics of the SME.

The development and growth of microenterprises require the availability of and access to adequate local support services which in most developing countries are currently limited and do not address the specific needs of this sector.

In Latvia natural resources are included in the civil transactions and may be object of the civil law transactions.

Many enterprises were making use of the services provided.

IV. Support mechanisms and services for SMEs

1.95 665 enterprises will have been working with placement and career guidance services.

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Distribution services encompass a number of different activities related to bringing together producers and consumers, dealing both with business to business transactions and transactions between business and the final consumer.

(7) offering necessary assistance and services in accordance with the demands of enterprise financial management.

UNCTAD's component included intensive training and business development services for more than 1,000 local companies, the establishment of TNC SME business linkages and the implementation of a business incubator.

The core services to be provided include entrepreneurship training, management advisory services, identification of sources of credit, subcontracting and other forms of enterprise linkages and policy advisory services for African Governments.

These services are grouped together in a dedicated programme for the promotion of CSR and business partnerships.

As regards business advisory services for SMEs starting a business for the first time, the provision of vouchers which entitle emerging entrepreneurs to a fixed number of consultancies could be an appropriate means to keep costs of the support programme low and to prevent abuses.

Typical examples are legal and insurance services, leasing, customs handling, etc., often possessed quot in house quot by large enterprises but too costly for SMEs.

The private sector has been developing mainly in the spheres of commerce and services less in that of production.

They try to cover as wide a spectrum as possible in terms of enterprises and sectors.

23. Service providers determine the range of services required by SMEs according to the level of economic and business development of a given sector or region.

In connection with his service in establishment and ministerial self defence formations or in connection with his membership of a compulsory or voluntary fire brigade functioning in an establishment

In some cases, export companies have seen a more rapid growth than those producing solely for the domestic market or those in the service sector.

The services provided under this module will also focus on strengthening institutional structures for the provision of business information services, such as SME information systems and web based products.

In the authors' view, the permanent establishment concept is narrowed in cases where, in e commerce transactions, the server in the source country is not at the disposal of the enterprise when a service contract with an Internet Service Provider is concluded.

In addition to its microfinance services, the microfinance and microenterprise programme continued to provide a number of business training and entrepreneurship courses through its small and microenterprise training programme.

On the Centralized Registration Service Day set up by the administrations for industry and commerce of Hainan Province, some 300 enterprises got the business license.

Both of them are about investing in entrepreneurs who are committed to service, and who really know the markets.

Subsidized infrastructure and services are often provided for enterprises investing in export processing zones, enterprise zones or science parks.

On business support services, among the issues raised was that of user charges.

As a general rule, as enterprises and economies develop, a greater proportion of the support services can be provided on a commercial basis, including those services that have originally been provided by enterprise organizations to their members at subsidized prices.

The training in service (19 ), entrepreneurship, business (19 ) and accounting (18 ) were the top three choices for women.

Consequently the local SME capacity in manufacturing or services decreases or disappears (Katz 2001).

33. A distinction can be made between the so called quot real business services quot and financial support (such as grants, loans, tax breaks, etc.).

These programmes comprised the business partnership programme, information services, SME cluster and network development, export consortia, rural and women's entrepreneurship development, and SME enabling framework and institutional support.

(a) What types of support agencies and services for SMEs have been established?

(4) assessing enterprise finance, monitoring the operation status of enterprise finance

They cater to retailers and to other wholesalers, and, for example in the food business, to what are called institutional customers , such as restaurants, hospitals, and catering services.

Studies of African and other countries show that inter firm or market networks have helped to provide business support services highly valued by SMEs.

(d) Under item (d), an allocation of 50,000 for five work months of consultancy for the development of an agri business component of technical cooperation project for promoting entrepreneurship (EMPRETEC).

To improve women entrepreneurs' visibility and representation, including representation abroad, chambers of commerce were providing services specifically for their benefit.

It also assists and facilitates women's access to credit facilities, profitable markets and to services which may enable them to become entrepreneurs.

(b) the chief economic activities are linked to trade, manufacturing and services, which together account for about 97.8 .