Family businesses are fascinating — 70 per
cent of businesses worldwide are private or family owned; they are the oldest form of business in the world, and in the UK, for instance, they provide 9.2 million jobs and generate # 1.1 trillion in annual turnover.
Not exact matches
Indeed, 83 per
cent of entrepreneurs
worldwide state they have achieved a good work - life balance, which in practical terms currently equates to an average
of 10.1 hours spent each day on
business tasks.
For example, Oxfam notes that «women produce more than half
of all the food grown
worldwide, yet own only two per
cent of all land and get only one per
cent of lending to agriculture» — a rather glaring oversight in the World Bank's fact - findings if they really do mean
business about poverty (and I bet they do).