Finance allows the creation of vast enterprises out of the combined capital, supplied at modest cost, of millions of people.

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Starved of funds to finance unwieldly state enterprises, he announced on June 22nd that subsidies would be cut.

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He announced a range of new finance and insurance products as part of a Trade and Investment White Paper aimed at helping small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to export more goods overseas.

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And we look forward to -- as a consequence of this award -- seeing more and more creative mechanisms to finance worthy enterprises.

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