Along with weaknesses on skills, it highlights access to finance as a particular stumbling-block.
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And for the next five years they're probably going to have cheaper and better access to finance.
However, smallholder production is often characterized by low yields, low quality, poor linkages, and little access to finance.
These innovators are already seeing rapid adoption in the market, but they share a barrier to widespread scale: access to finance.
The purchase illustrates another advantage of the conglomerate: it gives units access to finance they could not raise on their own.
Investment has taken a hit as access to finance is once again becoming constrained and, despite excess capacity, inflation has not fallen.
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If nothing else, the new fund will test whether access to finance is as important as entrepreneurs claim in holding back innovation in Britain.
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Its director general John Longworth has called for a "new model economy" based on more spending on infrastructure and a rethink on access to finance.
But bank unions put up powerful resistance, as does the notion that, left to the market, Indians' access to finance would be even more restricted.
Other measures discussed, such as introducing a car-scrapping subsidy, supporting workers on short time and improving car companies' access to finance, have reached no conclusion.
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Mr Swinney said the proposals aimed to boost public sector capital investment, improve access to finance, enhance economic security and take direct action to tackle unemployment.
The FSB also criticised the banking industry for failing to help small businesses, saying less than 10% of small businesses said they had easy access to finance.
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Mr Umunna said Labour had taken action to "enshrine fairness" with the equality act and set up the Ethnic Minority Business Task Force to look at barriers to setting up businesses, including getting access to finance.
Its objectives are media development, expanding access to finance, promoting the digital revolution through technology and innovation as well as creating a cadre of media leaders that share a commitment to advancing ethical and responsible journalism.
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The finance secretary also made fresh calls for responsibility for air passenger duty to be devolved to Scotland and for the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition at Westminster to do more to improve access to finance for small and medium-sized businesses.
Mr Salmond attributes the development substantially to policies pursued by the Scottish government: notably accelerated capital investment, access to finance and the stability involved in a guarantee of no compulsory redundancies in those areas of the public sector over which he has direct control.
The problem is that the EFSF would probably need authority to borrow something like 2tn euros, or more than four times the EFSF's current size - according to Royal Bank of Scotland, for example - for it to be seen as a credible lender of last resort to eurozone members deprived of access to finance from conventional sources.
Unlike the Housing Executive, the new associations will be able to access private finance to use towards building more homes.
Why should big foreign banks be treated differently when 70% of farming households have no access to formal finance?
Nonetheless it is a much needed safety net and one that should instil confidence in project sponsors to push on with projects in the knowledge that no well structured project will fail for lack of access to private finance.
The Welsh government said it was "following due process" on the issue of easing the congestion on the M4 around Newport, and that it was continuing to press the UK government for access to borrowing powers in order to finance infrastructure investment.
What happens to countries like Greece which lose access to private-sector finance?
By providing liquidity to issuers of consumer asset backed paper, the Federal Reserve facility will enable a broad range of institutions to step up their lending, enabling borrowers to have access to lower cost consumer finance and small business loans.
And as that happened, it led these companies to lose their access to the money, the capital they needed to finance those mortgages.
John Berlau is senior fellow for finance and access to capital at the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
Entrants to the consumer-finance business are soon expected to gain access to valuable data when Terranet, a new industry-run credit bureau, is set up next month (assuming blocking efforts by Takefuji, the industry leader, which claims that it might be illegal to disclose some data, fail).
If refiners did not have access to capital on favorable terms to finance these upgrades, the 10% to 15% haircut might be justified.
According to Lighting Africa, a joint World Bank - International Finance Corporation program developed to increase access to clean sources of energy for lighting, 589 million people in the continent live without access to a public electricity facility.
And there is another motivation for financial sponsors and the bankers who finance their deals: access to valuable market information.
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