In those situations, small and medium size investments by local entrepreneurs should be supported.

Small retailers can, however, find niche markets, such as serving convenience needs and local tastes.

So these are small actions that can amount to a significant effect to improve local environmental health.

And if you fill the cup with local agriculture from small farmers, you have a transformative effect.

Related objectives are to enhance the positive spillover of foreign presence onto the local economy and to avoid too harsh impacts on local operators, especially the small ones.

The Women's Counter of the Local Industry Development Institute (IDIL) promotes and develops local industry throughout the country and helps women who dedicate themselves to small scale business activities.

And they decided in 1990 that they wanted to start training the local entrepreneurs, giving them small loans.

This may be achieved by using local materials for reconstruction, engaging the local workforce (both men and women) in the reconstruction effort and providing equipment, training and microcredit to kick start local industries, farming, fishing and small businesses.

4 years after Uber joined the Taiwan market, it caused no small impact on the local traditional taxi industry.

The FFM learned of cases in Kelbajar and a small strip of Agdam District where people voted in both local and NK elections.

The public procurement system could be a practical instrument in the hands of municipalities to tender contracts to local small scale service providers.

Partnerships ranged from small scale development projects with a limited number of local actors to global initiatives with large numbers of major participants.

International terrorism, transnational organized crime and local conflicts all exacerbate the negative impact on victims of the use of small arms and light weapons.

Mr. Toru Ueno, Principal Administrator, OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs and Local Development (CFE), Small and Medium sized Enterprise (SME) and Entrepreneurship Division, OECD

The additional revenue might initially come from selling small electricity surpluses to local farmers to recharge their mobile phones (thereby allowing them to work out the optimal prices for their crops), or to help them irrigate farmland using small electric pumps.

In the suburbanized, dual income United States, stay at home moms are actually missing the social infrastructure that comes from extended family and local, small scale neighborhoods.

Online shopping and a shift towards buying small amounts of food daily at local convenience stores means supermarkets are having to do more to persuade people to visit.

To date, the CORE programme has helped create and support 18 large and 53 small scale project initiatives, all aimed at encouraging self sufficiency at the local level.

In Africa, the development of most countries was inhibited by structural constraints linked to high dependence on a small number of primary products and a narrow local industrial market base.

Reformers in this mold are suspicious of best practices and universal blueprints. They look instead for policy innovations, small and large, that are tailored to local economic circumstances and political complications.

Local and national networks were an important aspect of the Compact, since they could make it easier for small and medium sized enterprises and their partners to become good corporate citizens.

This is particularly the case at the household and individual user level, but even small enterprises in rural areas often access computers in local village community centres and similar public places.

Local LWV organizations monitor their local government meetings and address local issues.

The applicants can be sole proprietors or small and medium sized enterprises registered in the Estonian commercial register, and the state or local government participation in the enterprises may not exceed 25 .

A policy option to complement that role is building partnerships with local authorities, community based organizations, non governmental organizations and the private sector, particularly small scale service providers, to scale up sanitation initiatives.

You must help, my mother said to me. So I offered my services to the local Soviet authority and helped distribute basic foodstuffs to a small number of outlets in our district of Zehlendorf.

Quick impact projects account for a small percentage of a mission's budget, and in some cases, proceeds from a separate trust fund are used to conduct small scale projects (usually 25,000 maximum per project) to improve the quality of life of the local population and help establish the credibility of a new mission.

You know, it's local cooks teaching local people.

Regarding social and economic issues, the Government has already raised the minimum wage, increased taxation of larger businesses to help fund reforms and highlighted the need to tackle a chronic shortage of low cost housing, while supporting small and medium sized local businesses and investment incentives and trying to promote jobs for local people.18

Training programs, including for green jobs, should be significantly increased. Public expenditures must be focused on programs with strong employment content, such as in small and medium scale infrastructure projects and support to local governments.

Though customers may enjoy better services and cheaper merchandise, many small local retailing stores collapsed. The challenge is now how to deal with such situations, since these firms are crucial to employment and economic dynamics.

In other words, small shops may be more than capable of holding their own against big retailers if they adapt to the new environment. Indeed, small shops advantages are so compelling that Tesco is investing heavily in expanding its network of convenience stores, Tesco Express, thereby effectively mimicking the traditional model of local grocery stores.

It was suggested that small claims are usually handled locally, regardless of jurisdiction clauses, and that larger claims are often dealt with on both the cargo and carrier side on a non local basis by insurers.

A recent investigation has found that pelagic longline fishing may be contributing to the depletion of local fish stocks, thereby threatening the food security of coastal communities primarily served by small scale artisanal fishermen and women.

It assigns responsibility for local matters to a local government.

Many local LWV's include these articles in their local newsletters.

Much good work on strengthening civil society has already been done by American and British forces. We don t hear about the workshops for women s empowerment, or the successful organization of small scale local elections across the country.

Support for small scale project implementation with a strong element of capacity building, including among local non governmental organizations (NGOs), will also continue to be significant in some situations, such as emergency response and post crisis transitions.

Finally, the programme runs a very efficient and cost effective small and microenterprise training programme in the Gaza Strip, which contributes to the promotion of entrepreneurship and the improvement of business skills in the local enterprise community.

Greater flexibility, better capacity to serve small communities, relatively labour intensive technologies and greater adaptability to local economic conditions can in some cases make SMEs better suited to conditions in other developing countries than TNCs (Dhungana 2003).

Before the advent of the Internet, local hotels often had no other choice than to sell their room capacity at a low price to well known tour operators, ensuring them small but stable revenue throughout the year.

The Local Government Ordinance, 2001, governs elections to the local bodies.

If we say just small scale production, as is the tendency here, to go back to local food means that a poor man like Hans Rosling cannot even eat oranges anymore because in Scandinavia we don't have oranges.

Our vision is local manufacturing, like the local food movement, for production.

In addition, the Local Governance Unit was rebranded' as UNCDF Local Development.