SMEs
Small Business Act of 18 July 1958 (Public Law 85-536, as amended on 17 January 2014)
The Small Business Act of 1958 was passed for the benefit of small business concerns. According to the Act the federal government must award 5% of its prime and subcontract dollars to women-owned small businesses. For more information on this aspect see Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB) Program - Contracting Officer's Guide to the WPSB Program.
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The report highlights the key trends, challenges, and opportunities for Mongolian SMEs in three areas: enabling environment, supply and demand prospects for financial and non-financial services, and demand for and access to finance, with a particular focus on women-owned businesses. The study is expected to provide guidance to IFC and other financial institutions in the design and implementation of their SME Banking and Women-focused products in Mongolia.
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Parties:
Municipality of Danlí (Department El Paraíso) through the Mayor;La Sociedad Fliefil S.A. y Asociados, S. de R.L. de C.V. (Private Partner); Coalianza, Hondura’s PPP unit, is party to the contract as Arranger of the project .
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Public-private partnership for the design, financing, construction and transfer of the updates to the Danlí- El Paraíso Bus Terminal and Municipal Market space, including 600 commercial market stalls and 20 bus terminals (Clause I.)
In many countries, informal waste pickers contribute significantly to waste management and resource efficiency by collecting, sorting, trading and sometimes even processing waste materials. These activities also provide an income opportunity for large numbers of poor people. GTZ aims to determine the factors for successful informal sector integration in solid waste management systems in order to design measures for integration of the informal workers in waste management strategies.
Shows the results of a study done on the Colombian transportation infrastructure´s economic and financial situation, particularly indicating the special role of the SMEs in the sector. The research indicates, as one of the conclusions, that 78% of the companies from the construction subsector are SMEs, with an operational revenue of $4.9 trillion Colombian pesos by 2014.
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2014, InfoDev/ World Bank Group
Research done by the Asociación Nacional de Instituciones Financieras - Centro de Estudios Económicos for the Cámara Colombiana de Infraestructura (CCI).
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This is James Zhan's intervention at the Expert Meeting on Assessing the Impact of Public-Private Partnerships on Trade and Development in Developing Countries in Geneva, 2013. It highlights issues related to the promotion of SME in global value chains by the collaboration between the public and private sector.
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This article explains the importance of the infrastructure sector for the economy of a country, and how SMEs can benefit from it, either by improving their businesses, or by leveraging their inherent local advantage (ie they would not face certain non-commercial risks as the direct foreign investors would.)
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Chapter 10 describes the mechanism for industry transition from existing to new vehicle operators. An important component of the business plan involves incorporating existing service providers as operators of the new system.
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