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@GEMNOW @tobychance @Seda_dsbd @negociosUDD @babson Questions have been raised over the credibility of GEM data amid significant rises and falls in entrepreneurship rates in at least five countries. GEM says it is looking into it: https://t.co/1sem2Oq1Uu

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@danisen Very concerning this in the GEM report. https://t.co/wQbabxFHzP

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@GEMNOW @tobychance @Seda_dsbd @negociosUDD @babson Questions have been raised over the credibility of GEM data amid significant rises and falls in entrepreneurship rates in at least five countries. GEM says it is looking into it: https://t.co/1sem2Oq1Uu

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@zoltanacs https://t.co/JfnZIMAvGA

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@jeamoros https://t.co/wQbabxFHzP

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@GEMNOW @tobychance @Seda_dsbd @negociosUDD @babson Questions have been raised over the credibility of GEM data amid significant rises and falls in entrepreneurship rates in at least five countries. GEM says it is looking into it: https://t.co/1sem2Oq1Uu

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@CGTMSEOfficial @sidbiofficial Small and micro businesses (#MSMEs) in India are responsible for fewer non-performing loans at banks than are large companies, a new report finds. What does this mean for CGTMSE lending? https://t.co/5V75Vj25N4

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@tobychance @Kennethmeshoe @LindiweZulu6 @Seda_dsbd https://t.co/Hy5LDMfcwr

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Is South Africa’s Department of Small Business Development (#dsbd) about to be axed by #cyrilramaphosa ? Read more: https://t.co/YJIUyrh2LL

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Is South Africa’s Department of Small Business Development (#dsbd) about to be axed by #cyrilramaphosa ? Read more: https://t.co/YJIUyrh2LL

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#StandardBank #FNB #Absa #Nedbank @TreasuryRSA @BlackBCouncil @Seda_dsbd @tobychance SA banks' lending in South Africa to large corporate companies over the last five years grew at almost double the pace of that to SMEs, reveal Reserve Bank figures. https://t.co/TYzzOkSvib

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@rajeevkarwal @bikkykhosla @NSICLTD @ArunMaira @vinod_os https://t.co/WALHMee2Df

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#IndiaBudget2018 @RBI @sidbiofficial #Sidbi #prioritysector The Small Industries Development Bank of India (Sidbi) has revealed that it will lend directly to SMEs, rather than through banks in a new change of direction: https://t.co/mPQU7L9Il7

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@abhardwaj_fisme https://t.co/WALHMee2Df

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#IndiaBudget2018 @RBI @sidbiofficial #Sidbi #prioritysector The Small Industries Development Bank of India (Sidbi) has revealed that it will lend directly to SMEs, rather than through banks in a new change of direction: https://t.co/mPQU7L9Il7

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#IndiaBudget2018 @RBI @sidbiofficial #Sidbi #prioritysector The Small Industries Development Bank of India (Sidbi) has revealed that it will lend directly to SMEs, rather than through banks in a new change of direction: https://t.co/mPQU7L9Il7

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@ReceitaFederal @TreasuryRSA @FinMinIndia A Brazilian government programme that aims to get the self-employed to formalise, could leave an over $150-billion hole in the fiscus over the next 40 years, finds a new study: https://t.co/2axJCS9rkr

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Chile’s state procurement agency @ChileCompra has launched a new data portal which will help entrepreneurs and taxpayers to see how much, who and what type of products and services are traded by the state: https://t.co/0jzSJ2duuQ @TreasuryRSA @_tesouro @FinMinIndia @MOFmalaysia

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@mailandguardian @tobychance It's difficult to even know whether the procurement set-aside she championed has had any success: https://t.co/9zctmxlYbQ

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@SBI_SouthAfrica @zbswanepoel @BDliveSA Whenever are those changes going to take place? The amendments to the Small Business Act began back in 2012 and or before...

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@Seda_dsbd @tobychance @Kennethmeshoe Small Business Minister Lindiwe Zulu estimates that over R70 billion was spent by departments between April and November on procuring from small businesses. This is far off the 30% set-aside target: https://t.co/SUk4Yc6R96

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@CompComSA New amendments to South Africa’s #CompetitionAct, introduced last week, aim to open to economy to more new entrants – but they won’t ban economic concentration: https://t.co/ivFUPrNEV6 #BEE #Competition

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#Argentina’s Secretary of Entrepreneurship and SMEs Mariano Mayer has been awarded for his work on developing a strategy to revive Argentina's entrepreneurial spirit, including a new law for entrepreneurs: https://t.co/4oKNiQ0nx7 @unleashingideas @gugamayer

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The number of black-owned #tech #startups in SA may be on the rise, yet just four percent turn a profit currently, reveals a new survey by @Ventureburn. What then should be done about it?: https://t.co/VplLOQx5cv

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@CassioSpina @bndes_imprensa @AnjosdoBrasil @ReceitaFederal https://t.co/uuHDSsrXk3

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Brazilian development bank BNDES has just launched a $30m fund that will see the state co-invest alongside angel investors. Yet it comes only months after a new tax norm was released which will effectively disincentivise angel investing: https://t.co/hquLBVpE8n