31. Developing countries attach equal importance to the establishment of business support agencies.

Some firms tend to attach greater importance than others to such matters as the use of local resources, decentralization of decision making, and recourse to subcontracting and other inter firm arrangements.

44. The increased emphasis placed by all countries on the development of local productive capacity also extends to the issue of appropriate support mechanisms and structures for the promotion of enterprises, particularly SMEs.

It placed special emphasis on SMEs, which accounted for about 80 per cent of Indonesia's economy and had proved to be resistant to external shocks.

SMEs play a significant role in creating employment and can be regarded as a major vehicle for combating unemployment and poverty.

33. His country attached great importance to the SME concept, but the latter should not be associated solely with private ownership it could also involve other forms of enterprise organization such as cooperatives, mixed private public enterprises and public enterprises.

In other words, SMEs from Singapore remain interested in regional markets rather than global markets.

7. Also invites the Economic Commission for Africa to play a more active role in the development of African micro, small and medium sized enterprises and industries, in coordination with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization and other United Nations bodies concerned with the development of such enterprises, paying particular attention to enterprises owned by women and to women entrepreneurs

11. Values the promotion of entrepreneurship, including through the informal sector and micro enterprises, in the development of small and medium sized enterprises and industries by various actors throughout civil society and of privatization, demonopolization and the simplification of administrative procedures

The development of enterprises, especially small and medium sized enterprises, is essential to economic growth and employment.

It is recommended that all actors concerned, including private enterprise, pay due attention to these elements.

It's about kids. It's about entrepreneurship.

The comments on microcredit, too, would be noted, since many women worked in microenterprises.

This is particularly true of manufacturing firms, which are the main focus of this document.

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

Management factors seem to be of particular importance to medium sized enterprises, while chance factors are more important to small enterprises.

Indian manufacturing SMEs are relatively younger, are less able to undertake R D and import foreign technologies, are less oriented towards selling activities and have lower profit margins than larger enterprises.

These results were for large businesses, since micro and small businesses were mostly unaware of the programme (62 per cent to date).

China would respect international business practices and treat all types of enterprises registered in China alike and equally.

Malaysia felt that there was an increasing need for the public and private sectors to share the burden of national development.

In recent years, from deepening the promotion of streamline administration and delegate more power to lower level governments, establishing a power list system, and creating a legal environment that protects the legitimate rights and interests of entrepreneurs, creating a market environment of fair competition and shaping the atmosphere of respecting entrepreneurs in the whole society, the Party Central Committee has attached unprecedented emphasis on entrepreneurs and institutional guarantees.

The second focus area is aimed at facilitating the entry of SMEs into international markets and value chains through the promotion of export consortia and the promotion of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and business partnerships.

The participatory nature of these projects, together with the emphasis on women entrepreneurs and employment creation, have raised hopes of reducing poverty through this approach.

So it advocates a strict separation between the state and private business. Mercantilism, by contrast, offers a corporatist vision in which the state and private business are allies and cooperate in pursuit of common objectives, such as domestic economic growth or national power.

However, despite the fact that SMEs are extremely important to developing countries, not least as contributors to employment and growth, the sector is often neglected by governments, which tend to favour larger firms (Dhungana 2003).

Opening or maintaining a dialogue between the Government and enterprises was an important measure favouring the growth of enterprises.

The development of innovation, entrepreneurial and technological capabilities as essential inputs for the development and growth of enterprises and

Enterprise development is central to economic growth and increased employment.

No overlap although businesses were the same

Furthermore, the secretariat highlighted its joint work with OECD on the subject, the organization of five training courses for diplomats and government officials on SME competitiveness, and the creation of a website displaying the SME related activities of the Branch on Investment and Enterprise Competitiveness.

The Business of Business is More Than Business

The empowerment of smaller players (especially SMEs) would encourage Governments to grant higher priority to the enterprise sector in the design and implementation of their trade policies this could have a significant impact on diversification strategies, as well as on regional integration efforts

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.

In many cases, however, framework conditions are biased against SMEs.

2.4 Steps to Eliminate Discrimination Against Women by any Person, Organisation or Enterprise

Emphasis will be placed on entrepreneurship development (with special focus on rural and women's entrepreneurship), the development of horizontal and vertical SME networks for ensuring job creation and income generation, and the strengthening of agro based and agro related industries.

In the second focus area of this service module, trade capacity building, emphasis will be placed on promoting the development of SME export consortia, comprising voluntary groupings of enterprises, usually in the same or similar business or subsector.

The programme should also place emphasis on SMEs, given their role in economic development, and on standardization and quality control, which were also key to market access.

The custody enterprise shall set down related schemes according to the agreement concerning custody, and reorganize the assets and liabilities of the custodian enterprise.

Measures for effective protection include Physical security of likely targets e.g. public buildings, public transport (aviation, land and maritime), places of symbolic value, critical national infrastructure.

In Taiwan Province of China, large firms have provided trade credit and large scale loans to their SME partners, thus partially offsetting the discriminatory impact of government induced distortions against SMEs in the financial markets.

Minimizing negative effects of business restructuring

Developing country SMEs were more likely to be motivated by cost reduction factors and factors related to personal relationships, ethnicity and social connections.

These elements would fully suffice to justify a high level of attention being accorded to telecommunications related matters by all countries and enterprises involved in international trade.

Promotion of awareness in the entrepreneurial sector of the principle of non discrimination in employment against older and handicapped persons and persons with HIV AIDS.