In addition, assistance is provided for the training of young heads of micro enterprises through the offer of self employment alternatives with the aim of integrating young people into the world of work.

One or more enterprises which already control at least one enterprise directly or indirectly acquire total or partial control of one or more enterprises

The review arrangements may apply to operations whose sole consequence is to enable an enterprise or group of enterprises to exert influence on one or more enterprises.

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.

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The World Bank has several databases relevant to enterprise development and is also one of the sponsors of the Enterprise Development Website (ENTERWeb).

At the same time, corporations did not want to be seen as interfering in the domestic affairs of host countries.

A number of joint ventures with foreign firms have been established by enterprises in the rocket and space sectors of industry.

Impact of investing abroad on enterprise competitiveness Selected cases an indicators

33. There are many examples of successful interventions in the OECD countries in favour of small enterprises, the foremost among them being the United States Small Business Administration.

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The special role of small and medium sized enterprises was noted by several speakers.

Ms. Claudia Vaconcellos Vae, Manager of Planning, Brazilian Agency for the Support of the Small and Medium Companies (SEBRAE), Brazil

The Business of Business is More Than Business

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.

Only a skeletal staff is present inside the country.

A cluster, grouping a number of small enterprises, can have two organizational objectives.

So I spent three months in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania interviewing entrepreneurs that had received 100 dollars to start or grow a business.

On some occasions the middleman appears to be the chairman of several of those businesses.

Mr. Charles Ocici, Executive Director, EMPRETEC, Enterprise Uganda, Kampala

Concrete technical assistance proposals included the promotion of business linkages in Uganda.

Mr. Toru Ueno, Principal Administrator, OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs and Local Development (CFE), Small and Medium sized Enterprise (SME) and Entrepreneurship Division, OECD

Many such firms were family firms, which found it difficult to develop an entrepreneurial outlook.

SMEs provide a breeding ground for entrepreneurs.

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The discussion at the first session of the Commission on Enterprise, Business Facilitation and Development highlighted several questions or sets of issues that are common to many countries and which appear to be of importance for enterprise development.

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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).

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In Southern and Eastern Africa, a number of joint ventures involving several countries have now taken off.

Lastly, the third type of links are structural links which involve complete mergers of enterprises or the absorption of enterprises by other enterprises.

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.

As in the case of Internet access, the prevalence of websites is higher the larger the enterprise 53 per cent of small companies, 76 per cent of medium sized companies and 89 per cent of large companies.

Unleashing Entrepreneurship Making Business Work for the Poor.

The scope will usually be business to business services.

3. Enterprise issues relating to an enterprise development strategy.

The question arises as to whether the Government should intervene in support of ED or whether ED should be left entirely to the operation of market forces.

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Rather than sit with Ugandan rather than sit with Ugandan entrepreneurs, Ghanaian businessmen, South African enterprising leaders, our governments find it more productive to talk to the IMF and the World Bank.

Experience shows that the development of subcontracting arrangements between large firms and SMEs can give an incentive for large firms to provide financial, technical and other assistance to SMEs.

Most of the enterprises in the first category are either foreign owned or in the public sector.

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The four main areas of intervention were employment and entrepreneurial skills political participation violence against women and institutional strengthening.

In this respect, access to finance for new and expanding firms greatly influences firm development and growth.