Sentences with phrase «smaller economies of»

NAFTA and CETA combined would provide our relatively small economy of 33 million people with privileged access to a market of almost one billion consumers.

Not exact matches

«Because if the purpose of the small business corporate structure is to encourage small business to grow and also grow the economy, then a lot of small businesses aren't doing that.»

Elizabeth Gore is the entrepreneur in residence at Dell, where she drives initiatives that support Dell's goals around helping small and medium businesses scale and prosper, fueling the expansion of global entrepreneurship, thereby creating jobs that will drive the world economy.

And while there are lots of high - income earners who will be affected, it has an unintended side effect that small - business owners (the restaurant owner, the bike shop repairman and the dry cleaning operator), who are considered the backbone of the economy, would likely have to pay higher taxes — and be worse off financially — as well.

Today, we're interested in one of the most overlooked parts of American economy: the small - to - medium sized business, or SMB.

Larger operations tend to have greater profitability, because of economies of scale, but, at the same time, these businesses would likely capitalize more than smaller ones from any innovations.

«In this new economy, workers and start - ups and small businesses need more of a voice, not less,» President Obama writes in his opening letter to the report.

And as a small business owner, you're likely concerned about a looming Congressional impasse, which could knock the wind out of the economy's momentum — shaving the country's economic output and your sales figures in the process.

It's no secret that small business forms backbone of the U.S. economy.

Economics Sometimes the price difference really is pure economics: Canada is a sprawling country with a small population, which means higher costs for shipping, storage, distribution and economies of scale.

Luckily, the sharing economy means that small businesses have thousands of resources at their disposal (including web designers, IT programmers, call centers and sales resources) on an hourly basis.

In January, for example, President Obama mentioned the importance of small businesses as innovators and props to the economy in his State of the Union address at least half a dozen times.

The London - based National Institute of Economic and Social Research, a non-partisan think - tank, said in May that the economy of a European Union — free U.K. could be as much as 3.2 % smaller by 2030.

Small businesses are the driving force of the U.S. economy.

A review of a U.S. Small Business Administration initiative shows that support provided to entrepreneurs in regional groupings bolstered local economies.

Credit is one of the foundations of the American economy, and small businesses often must obtain credit in order to compete.

Recent studies have shown that more than half of America's 27 million small businesses still don't accept credit cards, which is very surprising when you consider how much they're worth to the economy.

Small business and entrepreneurship are at the center of creating jobs and growing the economy, which are key pieces of Trump's stated focus.

So they try to undercut the importance of our small - business economy.

How redirecting even 10 percent of consumer spending from chains to local small businesses can boost local economies and create jobs.

It's not a pretty picture, and regardless what the authors» think of small businesses, they are crucial to thousands of smaller towns across America, and critical to our overall entrepreneurial vibrancy that has created the greatest economy in history.

But cryptocurrencies are a much smaller part of the global economy, whether you compare it to US GDP or global GDP, it's less than one percent of global GDP.

That's important because the majority of exporters are small, and as the economy experiences sluggish growth and weak job gains, they are generally seen as a bright spot for their reach beyond domestic markets.

In other words, it encourages the smallest companies to expand and hire employees — thus making a bigger contribution to the economy — in order to take advantage of the tax break.

Small business surveys these days tend to paint a glowing picture of the economy, particularly around hiring.

The impact of the adjustment is likely to be mild on most parts of the economy — for instance, slightly increasing borrowing costs for consumers and small businesses that rely on more traditional bank - loan financing.

Meanwhile, the American oil and gas sector is a fairly small proportion of the country's overall economy.

Entrepreneurs and small business owners form, in a literal and virtual sense, the backbone of the economy, and as your business grows you will inevitably field questions from other aspiring entrepreneurs.

Since then, cities both big and small have been working on responding to the company's request for proposals in hopes of jump starting their local economies.

It was about a certain economy of space, that it worked big, small, embroidered, that's a lot different than just going with what feels good.

It's not hard to understand that decision: the trip reportedly resulted in $ 2.8 billion worth of new deals — a big amount for a relatively small economy like Canada's.

-- The Young Global Leaders Award for Circular Economy SME, which recognizes small - to medium - sized enterprises with $ 10 million to $ 100 million in turnover, was awarded to Apto Solutions, a provider of IT asset disposition services.

«Philanthropy is small as a part of the overall economy so it can't do things like fund health care or education for everyone,» he wrote.

They recently received a $ 10,000 grant to help grow their business from the New Economy Initiative's small business challenge, and his farm was among one of five Detroit based urban farms to be awarded.

When it comes to investing in clean tech, «larger or more diverse economies stand to benefit more; smaller provinces, whose industrial structure is not as diverse, tend to have smaller economic multipliers,» explains the Conference Board of Canada in a report.

In terms of economic policy, our empathy for the owners of smaller businesses can cause us to assume that what is good for them must automatically be good for the economy.

All across the board — regardless of gender, minority status or political leaning — small - business owners wanted to hear the presidential hopefuls address the topics of small business (66.23 percent), the economy (59.10 percent) and tax policy (53.95 percent), first and foremost.

We romanticize small business as the backbone of the economy.

Clearly, the bankers advising the Fed understand the bull case for bitcoin, though they argue that it is still too small a phenomenon to pose any sort of risk to the U.S. economy, calling it «more a curiosity than a threat.»

Our survey, conducted April 27 through May 2, assessed the existing primary candidates in the Republican and Democratic parties and explored the issues of greatest impact to small - business owners — a significant force in the U.S. economy as well as an extremely engaged segment of the electorate.

The RBNZ's challenges became immediately apparent after the central bank decision, with investors lifting the local dollar to a one - year peak despite the easing and threatening to depress both exports and inflation in New Zealand's small open economy with a population of 4.7 million.

While First Round acknowledged that their report is a «small subset» of the larger economy, it hopes to provide some insights of what successful seed - funding looks like.

The size of the Italian economy is still smaller than what it was in 2008, and is roughly where it was in the early 2000s.

The survey, which measures the outlook of the small business economy, shows small business optimism holding steady at 53 percent, the same figure as last month.

Although we've had two months of similar hiring and paycheck numbers, the SurePayroll small business owner optimism number plummeted 11 points, revealing that only 55 percent of business owners are optimistic about the economy.

The stimulus arguments made by proponents of a higher minimum wage tend to both fairly weak (not a lot of empirical support) and the benefits fairly small relative to the size of the economy.

But what's really changed is the small business owner's outlook on the state of the economy.

Yet, the Scorecard optimism survey shows 65 % of small business owners still optimistic about the U.S. small business economy.

While big business remains, small - and mid-size businesses now power a significant portion of the city's economy.

This month 63 percent of small business owners indicated they're optimistic about the economy, versus last month's 57 percent.