Even before the debate began, government economists had been studying measures such as allowing more self-employment and private or co-operative ownership of small and medium-sized businesses, as well as reforming land tenure and freeing agricultural markets.
We want to stimulate spending in the private sector and allow everyone to thrive, especially small- and medium-sized businesses.
And small and medium-sized businesses grew more slowly than the overall economy.
Italy is mired in recession, with a massive debt burden, and needs to get investment flowing again to hard-hit small and medium-sized businesses.
We have a lot of work and learning to do in order to catch up with our global competitors whose small- and medium-sized businesses are already skilled exporters.
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And for small and medium-sized businesses robots are generally too costly and too inflexible.
The ONS includes internet-only sales and has much wider coverage of small and medium-sized businesses.
The banks will no longer be allowed to lend to property developers, and must refocus their business on loans to Spanish households and to small and medium-sized businesses.
The best example of this is Japan's continuing passion for protecting small- and medium-sized businesses.
Small- and medium-sized businesses added more jobs than large businesses, with 117, 000 and 144, 000 respectively.
That makes MySQL an appealing option for small- and medium-sized businesses, says Forrester analyst Noel Yuhanna.
Many of these laws are so complex that innocent bystanders, especially small- and medium-sized businesses, get hurt.
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Industry groups say the standards, put in place to discourage corporate fraud, are too cumbersome for small- and medium-sized businesses.
The meat and potatoes of this bond recommendation are that the new slimmed down, post-bankruptcy CIT is lending to small- and medium-sized businesses.
While SuccessFactors and Taleo (Nasdaq:TLEO) have done a bang-up job for enterprise HCM, Flip sees an even bigger opportunity for small- and medium-sized businesses.
These are just the kind of plants used by the small-and medium-sized businesses that have been the engine of much of China's recent growth.
The 2011 MerchantCircle Merchant Confidence Index Survey of 8, 500 U.S. small- and medium-sized businesses showed that merchants are using location-based services more for marketing.
While small- and medium-sized businesses have been diving into cloud services, large enterprises have been slower to make the move, citing concerns about privacy, reliability and legacy integration.
On Monday, it made an attempt to penetrate into another key market, releasing software co-developed with Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) for small- and medium-sized businesses.
Small- and medium-sized businesses will access applications they could never otherwise afford, and larger businesses will be able to control their costs by shared use of what would otherwise be excess computing capacity.
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It also seemed that KIRK, which provided wireless voice networks based on the European system, DECT, would find growth in the U.S., since that particular technology is less expensive to deploy for small- and medium-sized businesses.
The sales-minded executive Tuesday announced he was dissolving an HP group responsible for sales to small- and medium-sized businesses to give HP's salespeople more direct customer contact, and stressed that HP would work only with partners that made it a point to champion HP products.
And one of the things that we're also doing is using our export arm of the U.S. government to help work with medium-sized businesses and small businesses, not just the big multinationals to protect their rights in some of these areas, because we need to boost exports.
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While SME lending has surged, according to official statistics, the truth is that local governments can classify small- and medium-sized businesses however they choose in order to make their statistics meet central government mandates that credit be extended to this sector, while not actually doing a better job of making credit available throughout the SME spectrum.
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But I do think that, although we've stabilized the financial system, one of the problems that we're still seeing all the time -- and I heard about it when it was in Allentown just this past week -- was the fact that small businesses and some medium-sized businesses are still feeling a huge credit crunch.
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Using a combination of diligence, data restrictions, staff training and education, regular technology updates and targeted software, small and medium-sized businesses can take matters into their own hands to stop cyberthreats from bringing down the business.
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Bridget Gibbons is CEO and Founder of Gibbons Digital, a social media consulting and implementation company providing services to small and medium-sized businesses.
And to sustain this momentum we're creating new initiatives to promote trade, investment and technology cooperation, especially among our small and medium-sized businesses that create most of the jobs here in the United States.
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SanDisk's new distribution channel addresses a wider portion of the market by delivering high-quality SanDisk SSD technology to small and medium-sized businesses, a growing market segment for SSDs.
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And we are constantly looking for more ways that we can push the banks and the credit markets to get money into the hands of small and medium-sized businesses who create the majority of jobs.
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