Tag: small and medium-sized enterprises

Government appeals to rural India in last budget before election

NEW DELHI, India (AFP) – India’s government promised hundreds of billions of dollars to develop poor rural areas and help struggling farmers in its annual budget Thursday, looking to win over voters ahead of the next general election. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said the government would spend $220 billion on rural infrastructure, including building new roads and toilets and bringing electricity to millions of rural households. Jaitley also announced a national healthcare scheme that will enable half […]

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Are Filipino business enterprises ready for the ASEAN integration?

MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News Service) — Are Filipino business enterprises ready for the ASEAN integration? This was what a recent forum on the ASEAN integration, entitled the “Business of ASEAN”, tackled as it invited guests and speakers from the business sector as well as from the academe and government sector, to talk about the issue. The forum which was about preparing SMEs or small and medium-sized enterprises for regional cooperation was convened by the Asia […]

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ASEAN tackles how to better inform SMEs about integration

“The need to better inform SMEs or small and medium-sized enterprises about the developments of the ASEAN Economic Community has been raised repeatedly by high-level ASEAN bodies including the ASEAN Economic Ministers Meeting. The question on how this can be achieved is now slowly being answered. One of these attempts to answer this question was addessed when representatives from the ASEAN SME Agencies Working Group (SMEWG), the ASEAN Secretariat, and private sector bodies at the […]

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