They see vast opportunities within their island nation, despite its turbulent political history and relatively small economy.
Mr Robinson said no small economy could afford to miss out on the opportunities existing in China.
There is a limit to how large a financial sector an independent Scotland a new, small economy could support.
Tourism, petroleum transshipment, and offshore finance are the mainstays of this small economy, which is closely tied to the outside world.
Greece may be a small economy, but a Greek departure from the euro, amid brinkmanship and bluster, would not be a small event.
Cyprus may have a small economy but its banks are much larger, with assets worth 750% of its GDP, more than twice the euro-area average.
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So while a mismanaged emerging economy was bound to hit trouble in international capital markets, even a well managed but small economy might be overpowered by the force of vast international capital flows.
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The Boise, Id. metro (No. 7) is seen as a dangerous market in part because its small economy is heavily dependent on a few large employers, including semiconductor company Micron Technology, which suffered severe job losses during the recession.
In addition to employing themselves, these entrepreneurs strengthen the small business economy by supporting and sustaining dozens of other small businesses.
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Both are helping to improve Ireland's competitiveness, a vital gain for a small open economy.
Between the recent GDP report, Taxmaggedon, weak consumer spending and other factors, growth in the small business economy is lackluster.
The anemic pace of the small business economy is showing its ugly head in the form of minimal improvement in the index.
The small business economy continues to show weakness in the United States.
The small business economy is as tepid as the economy overall.
Washington, for the sake of the small business economy and the health and well-being of Americans, should stop overtaking its citizens and immediately reduce the size of government.
Yet South-East Asia is proving rather resilient, even if the new kid on the regional block, reforming Myanmar, has too small an economy yet to have much of an impact.
Small firms account for only a small proportion of the economy and a correspondingly small proportion of investment and of research-and-development expenditure.
After discussing the situation with Randy McDuff, we also felt that the Greek economy was such a small piece of the world economy that we thought the Greek election would be a non-event.
But Australia a small, open economy has learnt to reserve such measures only for a handful of egregious cases.
It turns out capital controls and an imploded banking sector aren't particularly healthy for a small, open economy.
The government's financial secretary, Henry Tang, argues that this is a global trend which a small, open economy such as Hong Kong's can hardly resist.
With a small, open economy, it cannot maintain an overvalued exchange rate and pour in stimulus spending without seeing much of the money leak away into trade deficits.
Taxpayers have less disposable income to pump into the economy while small businesses, the primary drivers of job creation in our national economy, have less money to invest in hiring.
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In other words, Iceland, because it is such a small and vulnerable economy, should join the euro, even though its economy is not strictly in sync with the core eurozone economies, and even though it is likely to be more costly for it to respond to shocks from inside the zone than outside it.
What President Obama is proposing is to maintain the failed policies of his first term, which produced the worst recovery from a recession since the Great Depression, except to add this panoply of tax rate increases on the very job creators, investors and successful small businesses the economy most needs to create jobs and the long overdue real recovery.
And we'll work with organizations like the World Bank to support small businesses and to promote an economy that allows entrepreneurs, small businesspeople to thrive and allows workers to keep what they earn.
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They impact the job creation engine of this economy - small business, 23 million of them.
In this episode, we look at a particularly vulnerable segment of the economy: small businesses.
Anticipating a stronger economy, small-business owners are making plans to take advantage of the upswing.
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