Moreover, continuing to grow the corporate segment, but focusing on the current customer base (small to medium size enterprises) will offer valuable synergies in approach.

Portfolio wise break up of the bank's advances is 9.6 as microcredit, 77 to small and medium enterprises and the rest to corporate clients.

(c) Assistance to the revival of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs)

SSE Small scale enterprise

Aftek Infosys is a good example of a transnational SME using overseas mergers and acquisitions to acquire firm specific resources and expand the customer base.

The beginning of joint ventures abroad by manufacturing SMEs can be traced back to two different time periods depending on the size of firms (medium sized versus small enterprises).

Bankruptcies in the microenterprise and small business sectors.

SMET Small and microenterprise training

With respect to the types of enterprises, one may distinguish between informal sector enterprises, essentially microenterprises, and enterprises in the formal sector, which include some microenterprises, SMEs and large firms.

External financing also covers a good portion of operating expenses for health projects and programmes.

Small scale enterprise product

Since 1991, the programme has disbursed 18,092 microenterprise and small scale enterprise loans valued at 20.62 million, 6 per cent of which have been to women clients.

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The customers also centred their assistance around their particular needs and around problems that emerged in the SMEs while they were working to fulfil orders.

SMEs in the software industry are disproportionately more internationalized than SMEs in manufacturing activities This reflects the competitiveness of Indian SMEs in software activities.

Small and microenterprise training programme

Tthe web site www.shopmicro.org, which is selling products made by microfinance clients, and the Additionally, more than 30 countries are participating in the Global Micro entrepreneurship Awards programme, which organizes contests to identify and honour low income entrepreneurs.

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.

Needs of Small and Medium sized Enterprises

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(c) Women in micro enterprises and small businesses

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The objective of the Indonesian Association of Women Entrepreneurs (IWAPI) is the empowerment of women entrepreneurs, in particular those in micro, small and medium enterprises.

Fifth, large scale enterprises are running steadily, and the business conditions of small enterprises continue to improve.

Percentage of all women owned micro enterprises and small businesses

This measure could remove one important obstacle to growing microenterprises into SMEs.

3. At the core of this vision of the globalized economy is the enterprise whether micro, small, medium or large in scale.

SMEs investing abroad can normally be found among the more growth oriented SMEs.

c. Provision of credit for small businesses

Software SMEs contributed significantly to OFDI stock (47 per cent), whereas manufacturing OFDI by SMEs was small (table 6).

Improve the business climate for Small and Medium Enterprises.

Not just large Chinese enterprises but SMEs too are investing abroad.

Further, the quality and quantity of firm specific assets owned are also different between SMEs, and larger enterprises.

While SMEs in the software sector are less export oriented in their OFDI activities, compared with larger ones, they are relatively more export oriented in the manufacturing sector.

Dispatch of work teams to contribute to the task of teaching heads of families, and especially women heads of families, how to establish, follow up and run small business enterprises, and to teach them about the best ways of developing such enterprises

Table 7. Top ten SMEs and large sized enterprises from Indian manufacturing

271. According to the results of the 1992 National Survey of Micro enterprises and Small Businesses in the Dominican Republic, our micro enterprise and small business sector has the following characteristics

Attention may be paid to the needs of small and medium sized enterprises.

(d) Level of SME participation

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Development of accounting module small medium enterprises

454. Statistics on the activities of small enterprises and microenterprises tend to underestimate the role of women as entrepreneurs, mainly because it tends to be assumed that family businesses are run by the head of the household.

10. The experts recommended that the importance of SME development be put on the global agenda and that UNCTAD should introduce the topic of SMEs in the General Assembly so that all Governments appreciate the contribution of SMEs and discuss ways to promote them.

In 2000, the micro enterprises training sector promoted training courses for small and medium entrepreneurs.