Sentences with phrase «businesses lack access»

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In addition to the difficulty that many potential business owners face in accessing capital, aboriginal people have unique challenges to securing financing including legislation prohibiting the use of on - reserve assets as collateral, lack of local financial institutions to work with, and lack of access to angel investment or venture capital.

After all, the two top reasons small businesses fail in the first five years are a lack of access to capital and a lack of access to expertise.

The most common barrier to expansion faced by today's small businesses is lack of access to capital.

Subordinated debt offers business owners access to capital they may be unable to obtain from a bank due to a lack of tangible assets to offer as collateral.

Foreign businesses in China, as well as foreign governments, have long complained about a lack of market access in China and restrictive policies that run counter to its pledges to free up markets.

While the new technology promises to make cash management quicker and more cost - effective, so far it does little to address the small - business community's thorniest financial problem: its lack of access to capital.

Those policies include giving access to free land to select businesses (there is no land ownership in China), offering below - market loans, the near total lack of environmental standards, and policies that suppress wage growth.

«There's just a lack of capital and funding gap for small businesses, and it's really magnified in the U.S., where the financial meltdown of 2008 left a lot of businesses unable to access bank financing,» he says, adding social media has also been an immense help in promoting crowdfunding platforms.

Community Financial Services Association of America, the largest trade group for payday lenders, says the rule would «virtually eliminate» their business model, which provides short - term loans to millions of low - income consumers who lack access to credit cards or bank loans.

Other challenges he cited include lack of access to capital and a lack of business networks, two components often essential in expansion.

Small business owners here aren't without their challenges, including a lack of access to the capital they need.

As part of my academic studies, I spent time with Malagasy women, many of whom had managed to start small businesses despite limited formal education, a lack of mentorship and very limited access to capital.

Lack of banking limits access to capital and prevents economic development and business creation as people can't borrow.

Access to finance and business finance advice for SMEs in the UK Successful businesses may sometimes find further growth hampered by a lack of funding.

«When founding USB in the mid «90's, the business opportunities within craft and imported beer were becoming evident as consumption and demand continued to grow, with many brands seeking greater access to the U.S. market but lacking the know - how required to achieve stateside sales and distribution.

«The poor performance of industry and the business sector in general, could also be attributed to other challenges they faced, including, but not limited to, lack of access to finance, high interest rates, an unstable exchange rate, high import duties on raw materials and machinery, poor facilitation of import and export trade, particularly at our ports, inadequate and poor quality of raw materials for industrial processing, a poorly developed domestic trade infrastructure, lack of effective collaboration between research institutions and industry, limited access to serviced land for industrial production activities and poor standards of regulation and certification.»

«Does that mean that people are getting access to safe and efficacious interventions or is there basically unapproved human experimentation taking place where people are going to these businesses and receiving experimental investigational cell - based interventions without being given a meaningful account of the lack of knowledge and evidence that they're being charged for?»

Photo credits: EU / ECHO / Jonathan Hyams Global business leaders have joined forces to provide access to cut - price technology that will improve school system effectiveness and learning outcomes for some of the 330 million children around the world who lack basic skills for the knowledge economy of the future.

Still, lack of capital access is among the main reasons preventing small businesses from growing big.

It also lacks the airline business lounge access and travel statement credits.

The group estimated that lack of consumer access to fare and schedule data could mean an increase of up to 11 percent in ticket prices, so that «223 million American leisure and unmanaged business travelers would pay $ 6.7 billion more in airfares, and it may result in up to 41 million passengers annually choosing not to fly because of higher ticket prices.»

Still, 1.2 billion people today lack access to electricity connections and millions of households, businesses and community institutions receive poor and inadequate supplies of electricity services.

The lack of access - to - justice - focused businesses is not a diversity problem alone.

So many people (as well as businesses) in the United States lack meaningful access to legal assistance, the problem is considered by some to constitute a human rights crisis.

Some will succeed — especially large corporate firms with significant resources — but many others will find it difficult, both in the US as well as in other countries, because of the inflexibility of US firms» singular business and service delivery model (partnership using the professional consultancy model to deliver legal services only), and because of their lack of access to resources such as investment capital and management and other kinds of expertise.

The inability of the vast majority of individuals and small businesses to secure legal representation due to lack of access and high cost is an acute problem often referred to as «the access to justice crisis.»

Secondly, and perhaps most importantly, low and middle income individuals and small businesses in the US will continue to suffer from lack of access to legal services.

Lack of access to remedies for local complainants is a «gaping hole» in due diligence by companies doing business overseas, said Mendes, a former United Nations adviser on corporate social responsibility.

The vexing problem small businesses faced, then as now, was lack of access to affordable business health insurance.

Still, lack of more region availability aside, those who do have access to it whether sooner or later, will be in for a handful of new useful functions, from scanning text so you can save information on business cards to looking up products by scanning a barcode, and then getting more details about that particular product, like how it much costs and where to buy it.

Founders of business financing blockchain startup, Debitum Network, say they have research that suggests small businesses around the world have a severe lack of access to credit.

So many people go through their careers wondering why they're not receiving promotions, better job offers or access to lucrative business opportunities, the reason is because they lack a personal brand.

Hundreds of millions of people around the world, in poor and developing countries, lack access to credit due to absent or inadequate credit histories — credit that that could help in starting a business, pay for an education, or buy a home.