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.
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.
Alternative lending is popular in China because state-owned banks tend to favour large companies, particularly state-owned enterprises, leaving small and medium-sized companies starved of credit.
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The ONS includes internet-only sales and has much wider coverage of small and medium-sized businesses.
One of the cornerstones of his programme is a promise to hand out low or zero-interest credits to small and medium-sized companies.
The government plans to eliminate the 10% corporate-tax surcharge and reduce the company-tax rate to 33% for big firms and only 15% for small and medium-sized firms.
He had a sit down with Peter Lorenz, the now-corporate officer who oversees small and medium-sized business products.
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.
He says he wants an open, export-oriented economy, kind to small and medium-sized entrepreneurs.
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One is for the large mining companies, which have excellent safety standards, and the second is for the medium-sized and small mining operations, which have lower standards.
SMErobot, a European Union-backed initiative to develop robots for small and medium-sized companies.
Up on the committee corridor there's the first meeting of the new Energy and Climate Change sub-committee on local energy (2pm) looking at the contribution small and medium-sized projects could make to the UK's energy supply, and at barriers to medium-sized and community-owned projects.
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.
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.
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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The government has also promised to continue with its supply-side reforms, such as cutting red tape for small and medium-sized firms.
Duffaut came to SAP in 2005 and ran the Small and Medium-sized Enterprise (SME) channel in the EMEA region.
Next week, tweaks in the tax system are expected to promote investment, especially in research and development by small and medium-sized companies.
Regional Landesbanks provide vital financing and support to small and medium-sized enterprises which would otherwise not have access to funding from national banks.
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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They reveal discussions about how the credit guarantee scheme - a government scheme created in 2008 to help get credit to small and medium-sized businesses - would "allow Libor to fall quicker" than it otherwise would.
Two-thirds of those hit with the new 11% tax rate are small and medium-sized business owners.
According to the government's small and medium-sized enterprise agency, 65% of small Japanese firms thought of themselves as subcontractors to bigger ones in 1981.
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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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.
Founded in 2006 by Radu Georgescu, a serial entrepreneur who sold a previous anti-virus software company to Microsoft (MSFT), Avangate helps 2, 800 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Europe and Asia to sell their software without hiring a big sales force.
Instead of just focusing on big name British companies to sign big ticket deals, Mr Cameron has brought with him 30-odd small- and medium-sized firms in the hope that they can inculcate a new generation of trade and entrepreneurial links with India.
Bridget Gibbons is CEO and Founder of Gibbons Digital, a social media consulting and implementation company providing services to small and medium-sized businesses.
The good news is a boost in the economy from the sharp rise in spending on public works and a slowdown in bankruptcies among small and medium-sized companies.
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