And finally, remember that China is a continent sized economy, not a country sized one.
Some Frepaso leaders, such as Enrique Martinez, the secretary for small and medium-sized business in the economy ministry, argue that the party must stick with the Alliance, while trying to change it from within.
But one of the things that I wanted to mention is we're starting to focus on how we can get small and medium-sized businesses plugged into the global economy as well.
And change remains urgently needed: if the chaebol remain unchecked, they will crowd out the small and medium-sized businesses that, in a maturing economy, are the biggest source of future growth.
We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear fear of war, fear of poverty, fear of random terrorism, fear of getting down-sized or fired because of the plunging economy, fear of getting evicted for bad debts, or suddenly getting locked up in a military detention camp on vague charges of being a Terrorist sympathizer.
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And small and medium-sized businesses grew more slowly than the overall economy.
Yet there is much to suggest that Germany will fare worse than most in the slump and that its pain will be felt most acutely by its famed Mittelstand, the thousands of family-owned small and medium-sized firms that are the backbone of its economy.
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Interest rates could come down as early as the first quarter of 2012, with the new leadership offering up targeted fiscal incentives for small and mid-sized companies to encourage job growth as the economy slows from 10%-plus growth to around 9% next year, according to International Monetary Fund GDP forecasts.
In any economy, small- and medium-sized, non-government owned companies are the ones that create the most employment.
For one thing, the companies that make up the backbone of the economy, the small and middle-sized ones, most of them in central and northern Italy, are remarkably buoyant.
Mr Ramsay said that with the removal of bureaucracy, small and medium-sized firms which make up 95% of the economy of Wales, could also play their part in taking on apprentices, and the whole image of apprentices would change.
He says he wants an open, export-oriented economy, kind to small and medium-sized entrepreneurs.
The economy has recovered better than most advanced, comparably sized economies.
That meant that small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), the key job creators in any economy, had few choices when it came to accessing capital to finance the growth of their businesses.
That leaves the Mittelstand, the mid-sized firms that are the backbone of Germany's export-driven economy, most exposed to a credit squeeze.
Prior to the changed economy, there were a number of small and medium- sized family-owned businesses who adopted succession plans whereby they allowed for outside investment into the business, sometimes selling all or half of their shares to investors.
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The heart of the German manufacturing economy moreover consists of the so-called mittelstand of medium-sized, family-controlled companies that are for the most part unlisted.
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In many other parts of the American economy, the process has barely begun particularly among smaller- and medium-sized businesses.
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