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Enabling Welsh SME Growth, Boosting International Trade Opportunities

There can be no doubt that these are tough times for the Welsh economy. The poor performance of the global economy and the problems of the Eurozone have inevitably affected our economic prospects. The main influences on the Welsh economy

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Peer-to-Peer Lending, Crowd Funding for Sustainable SME Growth

Since the credit crunch of 2008, small businesses have faced considerable challenges accessing finance through traditional high street banking routes. The current picture suggests that there is little sign of this improving in the immediate future. Our figures suggest that

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Business Expo 3.0: Nurturing Tomorrow’s Growth Businesses

by Karen Landles and Andrew Pakes; 26 March 2013 “Export is fun!” declared Lord Parry Mitchell, speaking at the International B2B Business Expo 3.0 event at Stadium MK in Milton Keynes recently. The sense of excitement and energy, of enjoying

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Enterprising State Needed for Innovation-Driven Economic Growth

The economic slump is not going away. The Coalition government likes to say that the glue holding it together is its commitment to eliminating the structural public deficit over four years. But its confidence that deficit reduction alone boosts private

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The Czech Republic’s Disastrous Austerity Experiment

The Czech Republic is sometimes regarded as a smaller version of Germany. This small Central European country is amongst the least indebted in the EU, and can fairly be characterized as a nation of small savers . The Central Bank’s

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Agenda for Change: Nurturing Tomorrow’s Creative Pioneers

As the global economy enters uncharted waters, there is an ever greater need to nurture the “can-do” pioneer. Those who will by their vision and energy enable our societies to achieve real and sustainable growth. Let us briefly cast our

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