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

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.

MEC Microenterprise credit

Bankruptcies in the microenterprise and small business sectors.

SMET Small and microenterprise training

(a) Microenterprise Credit (MEC)

Microfinance and Microenterprise Programme

Small and microenterprise training programme

Microenterprise credit product

63. Small and micro enterprise training programme.

(c) Women in micro enterprises and small businesses

70. Small and microenterprise training programme.

Women microentrepreneurs received 25 per cent of the loans, while microentrepreneurs under 28 years of age received 24 per cent.

62. Micro enterprise credit programme.

69. Microenterprise credit programme.

Percentage of all women owned micro enterprises and small businesses

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

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.

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.

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

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

Subprogramme 4 Microfinance and microenterprise

(f) Small and Microenterprise Training (SMET) (Gaza Strip only)

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

Table 9

The beneficiaries include 30 female micro entrepreneurs.

Particular consideration was given to the development of microbusinesses.

They provide support and training for workers in micro enterprises and small and medium sized enterprises, as well as for owners.

Table XX Activities in which women owned businesses are concentrated

We must also focus on strengthening micro business and small and medium sized enterprises in order to overcome the barriers blocking access to credit.

(Cash and In Kind, in thousands of United States dollars)

It supports the development of the microenterprise and small scale business sector by providing working capital and capital investment loan products.

45 of all micro enterprises and small businesses in the country are owned by women and generate one third of the employment in those businesses.

Has this kind of assistance enabled microenterprises to grow into SMEs?

1.179 The structure of the Microfinance and Microenterprise Programme is as follows

(c) Development of microenterprises, including informal sector upgrade

Percentage of all workers in women owned micro enterprises and small businesses

UNRWA s MEC programme continued to provide working capital loans to meet the needs of the estimated 18,000 microenterprises in the Gaza Strip, which employed some 40 per cent of the labour force.

The West Bank operation disbursed 4,744 microenterprise loans worth 5.09 million.

1.178 The small business and microenterprise training programme will have been maintained at the same level of activity achieved during previous years.

At the present time, small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) and microenterprises constitute one of the most important sources of employment and income in Nicaragua.

Participation fees covered approximately 50 per cent of the SMET programme s costs.

In Ecuador, microenterprises are encouraged to register by the granting of certain advantages (special loans, special provisions for the workforce, etc.) in return for paying taxes.

Those in small businesses can't get the capital they need to expand and those in microbusiness can't grow out of them.

It can act as a catalyst in the transition to the formal sector for the development and growth of microenterprises into SMEs.