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Alessi GAG500S1 La Via Lattea Set of Hard Cheese Knives in Mirror Polished by Anna and Gian Franco Gasparini $400.00 GAG500S1 Features: -Special sleeves for handles and blades.-Handle of the knife is inserted in a made-to-measure pocket.-Blade is kept in place with a mobile flap affixed to the wallet.-Wallet is closed by rolling it up and secured with Velcro flap and natural leather thong. Includes: -Includes double-strength heavy cotton wallet. Collection: -Anna and Gian Franco Gasparini collection.... |
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US $53.32
Millennium Development Goals 2015 only successful with dynamic SMEs
Micro- Small and Medium Enterprises: Indispensable partners for
reaching the MDGs 2015.
Delegates of SMEs supporting organisations from more than 50 Countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, USA, Russian Federation, among them Government Agencies, Chambers of Commerce and Industry, Women Entrepreneurs Organisations and Banks participated in the Conference. According to recent estimations of the World Bank, we have world wide approx. 500 million formal and informal entrepreneurs, 99% of them SMEs including Micro-Entrepreneurs. The number fluctuates with the ups and downs of the economic cycles. Though since the begin of this year, a significant rebound of the world economy can be felt, it has not yet become a recovery. Due to the crisis more than 60 million more people, among them millions of small- and micro entrepreneurs, primarily in the less developed countries will be in poverty in this year 2010.Many of the achievements in recent years made to facilitate business of SMEs in the world, to reduce poverty in less privileged economies have seriously been jeopardised by shrinking demand for SMEs export products, increasing prices for energy and food, falling commodity prices, significant reductions in foreign investment and a general liquidity shortage. The strong interdependence among the worlds' economies made this a literally global economic crisis and human tragedy.
SMEs Crises Prevention and Development
Leading economists, e.g Jeffrey Sachs predict that SMEs cannot rely aloneGovernments help and financial support in times of crises. Faced with huge budget deficits and public anger, almost all counties in the world, including the US and the Countries of the European Union will have to impose a financial transaction levy soon, based on the proposal of the Nobel Price laureate James Tobin. The revenue generating potential of a levy is tremendous. A tiny levy rate of 0.005% would generate proxy. $30 billion per year, of which a substantial amount could be allocated to promote international economic development and prevent Micro- Small and Medium Enterprises from bankruptcy in times of financialcrises. A pilot CTL pilot project initiated by WUSME shall now prove the feasibility of a unilateral CTL on a voluntary basis agreed between Governments and local Banks.
Micro Finance and Agribusiness
Our WUSME President Gian Franco Terenzi is convinced: Micro financing has proven a critical tool in the fight for survival of SMEs in times of a crisis and for further development. Access to a range of micro finance services, savings, loans, and money transfers— enables poor families to invest in enterprise and in better nutrition, improved living conditions, and the health and education of their children. Further a commitment to focus on Micro- and Small agribusiness, the existing approaches being followed by structural transformation, technological upgrading and economic diversification of economies. Agribusiness is the key determinant of overall economic growth and poverty reduction in most developing Countries.
The accelerated development of agribusiness will benefit a large majority, paricularly of the population in most countries of Sub-Saharan Africa, and it will enhance the well-being of both producers and consumers, generate employment, income and food security and contibute to solve the problem of increasing immigration and emigration of the local population. Access to Micro-financing for SMEs in the agro-industry will have priority for WUSME's Action Plan.
About the Author
Prof. Norbert W. Knoll von Dornhoff studied jurisprudence and national economics at the Universities in Vienna, Austria and St. Gallen, Switzerland. Graduated Dr.jur. (LL.D) and Mag.rer.soc.oec (MBA). Head of the Environment Department of the Austrian Federal Chamber of Commerce (WKO) and later General Secretary of the Austrian Federal Chamber of Architects and Engineers. From 1983 to 1991 Permanent Observer SACEP South Asian Co-operative Environment Programme (Governmental Organisation) to UNIDO in Vienna. Founding Member, General Secretary and now President of EIED European Institute for Economic Development, NGO under Austrian legislation. Professor (adj.ass.) of Economic and Fiscal Policy at the International University of Entreprenology, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. Since 2009 General Secretary of WUSME World Union of Small and Medium Enterprises with headquarters in the Republic of San Marino.
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