SME News
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2020-08-07
Small-business owners are wary as relief program ends
In early April, three weeks after Connecticut issued shutdown orders, Ken Bodenstein borrowed $148,000 from the federal government to help cover payroll expenses at the Westport day care center he runs with his wife, Kristen. The small-business lo...
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2020-08-07
Govt plans to create 'social microfinance organisation' for women, small businesses: Nitin Gadkari
The government is planning to create a deposit-taking 'social microfinance organisation' to disburse loans of up to Rs 10 lakh to women and small entrepreneurs quickly, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Friday said. The idea came up during a di...
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2020-08-06
COVID-19 has hit SMEs in South Africa’s food sector hard. What can be done to help them
COVID-19 has prompted widespread discussion of the resilience of food systems and how efficiency and competitiveness have been previously understood. Recent decades have seen the growth of increasingly complex food value chains. These are underpinned...
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2020-08-06
Singapore's SMEs to get government help from new online adviser
SINGAPORE, Aug 6 (The Straits Times/ANN) - Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) will be getting more help to access government support, with a new online adviser to point them to schemes most suitable for them. Such help is especially importa...
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2020-08-06
SMEs can be significant players in the fourth industrial revolution — but we need to fix our education system first
There is a growing awareness of the need for economic change in Australia. It was happening before COVID-19, but this tragic global pandemic has thrown it into stark relief. It’s an awareness not restricted to business and political elites. ...