Image reprinted with permission of Aotearoa under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License On average, sales of goods and services to government agencies and entities account for 10-15 percent of a country’s GDP. Furthermore, unlike private sector...
In several previous posts, we have discussed this reality – In today’s globalized economy your next business opportunity could be located anywhere in the world. Trade Agreements, Trade Financing, and Technology provide the doors for small businesses to take advantage...
In today’s globalized economy your company’s next business opportunity could be located anywhere in the world. The three T’s – Trade Agreements, Trade Financing, and Technology — provide the doors for small businesses to take advantage of these international...
Last week’s post discussed the growing attention being paid to addressing the need of small businesses to access capital, particularly if they are to play a role as engines of economic growth. Apart from headlines calling attention to this issue, we are also...
It’s questionable how much attention one should pay to headlines in order to understand the world and emerging trends. Headlines have a tendency to either change erratically from day to day or to get stuck on one theme until the next big issue comes along. However, a...
“Never in history have so many nations owed so much money with so little promise of repayment,” wrote Time Magazine in the mid-1980s. Total world debt soared from approximately $100 billion in the early 1970s to nearly $900 billion dollars by the mid-1980s. (Origins...
