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    The ISO and corporate social responsibility: small and medium-sized enterprises

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2004
    The existing social responsibility (SR) debate almost entirely focuses on large enterprises. The drivers of the debate, including NGOs, investors and regulatory authorities, naturally tend to focus on large, high profile companies.
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    Current state of the art in impact assessment: with a special view on small enterprise development

    Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, 2004
    This guide, published by SDC, aims at providing some best practice guidelines for those undertaking impact assessment with particular reference to the field of small enterprise development (SED).The guide:runs through some of the general issues concerning impact assessmentoutlines the evolution of various common methods and approaches developed and discussed particularly for SED and
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    A manual for gender oriented entrepreneurship promotion

    Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2003
    This manual provides strategies, concrete instruments, and practical examples to support professionals in micro and small enterprise promotion programs.
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    Fighting corruption in state-business relations (small and medium business in St. Petersburg)

    Regional Think Tanks Partnership Program, Russian Federation, 2004
    Recent studies identify Russia's regional and municipal levels as the most corrupt levels of authority. A survey of small and medium business owners showed that 76 percent of businesspeople thought corruption was a significant phenomenon.The paper is a Russian part of the project “Prospects for Fighting Corruption in Post-Socialist Countries: the Cases of Russia and Hungary”. It analyses St.
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    Creating market opportunities for small enterprises: experiences of the fair trade movement

    International Labour Organization, 2002
    This paper assesses the successes and lessons learned in Fair Trade to date.
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    Problems and perspectives of developing small and medium sized businesses in Belarus

    Institute for Privatization and Management,, Belarus, 2003
    Nowadays, modern economies are unthinkable without small and medium sized companies. They create job opportunities, offer food, clothes and services to the population.
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    Training for empowerment: the impact of training on women's microenterprise development

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Less and less importance is now being attached to training poor women - indeed some agencies have abandoned it altogether in favour of micro-credit and savings schemes. But should training be put back on the agenda? Research in five countries in collaboration with a UK team assessed whether training could pay dividends in the development of women's microenterprise initiatives.
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    Women mean business: barriers to women’s entrepreneurship in Zimbabwe

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Why don’t more women set up their own businesses? Are programmes aimed at encouraging entrepreneurship among women getting it right? How do cultural ideas about men, women and money affect would-be women entrepreneurs?
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    Guaranteeing credit for SMEs: lessons from Malaysia

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    The potential for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to power growth in transitional and developing countries is widely recognised. Why then, are bank and SME relationships problematic? How can governments help SMEs to access credit? How much can they afford to risk guaranteeing loan schemes?
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    Migration, return and small enterprise development in Ghana: a route out of poverty?

    Sussex Centre for Migration Research, 2003
    This paper explores the extent to which the processes of migration and return have contributed to development and poverty alleviation through the promotion of small businesses in GhanaBased on the argument that migration and return can be seen as a mechanism for providing capital for the development of small enterprises, particularly amongst poorer and less-skilled migrants, it examines the rol

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