Showing posts with label growth trends. Show all posts
Showing posts with label growth trends. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 07, 2018

Is South Africa Out of Step on Global SME Growth Trends?

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Is South Africa a "complete outlier" internationally when it comes to employment creation by small and medium-sized enterprises?  It raises questions about possible policy and regulatory failure.
Initial findings of a new study by the Small Business Institute (SBI) and the Small Business Project (SBP), released on Tuesday, found SA has only 250,000 formal SMEs, less than previous estimates of between 2-million and 6-million.
Is South African completely out of step with global SME growth trends?  Read more.