Because poor people are business people who lack business skills and access to credit.

(b) Providing access to the international business community to information on local resources and business opportunities.

I meet incredibly interesting entrepreneurs who are seeking access to finance, access to markets and established business networks.

Furthermore, many people engaged in the informal sector lack business know how and have limited opportunities to access business information and business support services.

Nearly everywhere I go, I meet incredibly interesting entrepreneurs who are seeking access to finance, access to markets and established business networks.

The programme will provide successful applicants with volunteer business mentors and full access to the organization's local and national business support network.

They also stressed the need to build a road for access and business traffic.

(i) Promote equal access for women to information and communication technology based economic activities, such as small business and home based employment, and to information systems and improved technologies, and further develop tele centres, community access points and business incubators

Access points should serve as development hubs for exchanging business and marketing information.

Computers remain the most important means of access to the Internet and of ICT use in business processes.

SMEs were constrained by lack of finance, inadequate entrepreneurial skills and training, limited access to markets and vital business information and technologies and the high cost of doing business.

Hence, access to tailor made information and e business platforms are key requirements for SMEs entering the global markets.

This is most critical as it enables them to access information on global markets, regulations and finding business partners abroad.

Not having access to the relevant business information can be as serious an obstacle as tariff and non tariff barriers.

Increase vocational education, trade, and business skills to bridge the digital divide and increase internet access to poorer regions of the world.

In the absence of a fully competitive banking sector, lenders demand high interest rates and security which is often not available to small business or agricultural producers. Business growth requires ready access to credit.

But access to local and international sources of information requires not just reliable PCs. It also requires relatively inexpensive network access and usage charges, and unless access is provided via a business, education or research institution network, a modem is needed.

Inducements might include, for example, local infrastructure and water projects, the provision of access to small business loans or basic medical care.

We must also focus on strengthening micro business and small and medium sized enterprises in order to overcome the barriers blocking access to credit.

It nurtures a pro business environment that encourages enterprise formation and growth, facilitates the growth of industries, enhances the productivity, innovation and capabilities of enterprises, and helps increase access to markets and business opportunities.

To support the socio economic empowerment of rural women and their full participation, UNIDO also assists women to organize business associations to facilitate access to finance.

Problems of access to quality transport services manifest themselves in the form of reduced profit margins, reduced competitiveness and constraints on business expansion.

The success criteria will include increased opportunities for women to access and control economic resources and information, and increased participation in business management.

Special attention will be paid to assessing the synergy between cluster development, business linkages and access by SMEs in developing countries to global value chains.

(d) Targeted support to microenterprises is often provided in terms of, for example, help for preparing business plans or for improving their access to finance.

Good telecommunications infrastructure is vital to accommodate the numerous new applications (e.g. the Internet) available to enable enterprises to access and take advantage of international business opportunities.

It was alleged that KWL had denied independent stevedoring companies access to the port facilities, which SSL deemed to be necessary for carrying out its business.

Enabling developing nations to access vitally needed pharmaceuticals at rates reasonably close to the cost of production will not put transnational drug companies out of business.

Measures to facilitate women's involvement in business through the provision of easy access to capital and special schemes for women entrepreneurs were among the measures taken.

7. Welcomes, in this regard, the establishment by the Community of the Women in Business Network, aimed at empowering women by, inter alia, facilitating and enhancing their access to credit and training in business and technical skills

It also assists the entrepreneurs in gaining access to financing and business ventures, in linking up with larger established companies and in establishing systems to facilitate growth.

Business, business, business.

51. The World Bank s Competition and Strategy Group within the Private Sector Development Department seeks, in general, to foster business government cooperation to promote policy reforms aimed at creating a responsive business environment, strengthening linkages to the international economy, and improving access to up to date technology.

Linking with TNCs can help businesses, particularly SMEs, to upgrade their activities, access know how and technology, and get direct or indirect exposure to the international business community.

Bearing in mind the importance of microfinance instruments such as credit, savings and related business services in providing access to capital for people living in poverty,

Bearing in mind the importance of microfinance instruments such as credit, savings and related business services in providing access to capital for people living in poverty,

DMSs can provide solutions for business to business (B2B) and business to consumer (B2C) e commerce.

But there's no training, nothing to prepare them for that, no rehabilitation at all in prison, no one to help them write a business plan, figure out a way to translate the business concepts they intuitively grasp into legal enterprises, no access to the Internet, even.

The most important of these are lack of access to information, the measurement of loan delinquency, setting of interest rates, designing lending procedures and developing business projects.

The scope will usually be business to business services.

The new India Partnership Forum has formulated a social code for business adopted by 319 companies committed to take specific actions to ensure gender equity and women's equal access to employment.

5. Business information 38. Problems of availability, selection, access and international standardization hamper enterprises in making the best use of information for trade.

Calls upon Governments and entrepreneurial associations to facilitate the access of women, including young women and women entrepreneurs, to education and training in business, administration and information and communication technologies

Calls upon Governments and entrepreneurial associations to facilitate the access of women, including young women and women entrepreneurs, to education and training in business, administration and information and communication technologies

For developing countries enterprises to achieve a more integrated adoption of ICT in their business processes, it will be crucial to enhance the reliability and speed of available Internet access.