TRADE AND INDUSTRY INFORMATION CENTER Issue 1
January 15, 2014
Title
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Guidebook on SME Business Continuity Planning
Publisher
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Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)
Call Number :
03.08.05/APEC/2013 This guidebook is intended to help small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) introduce business continuity plan (BCP) which is the solution for protecting business during crisis. It presents 10 easy steps that SME readers can follow to develop their own BCP, that in each step, forms have been prepared to assist readers. 60p.
Title
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What Have We Learned from the Enterprise Surveys Regarding Access to Credit by SMEs
Publisher
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World Bank
Authors
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Kuntchev, Veselin/Ramalho, Rita/Rodriguez-Meza, Jorge
Call Number :
00 000/04.03/WB/2013 This paper develops a new measure of credit-constrained status for firms using hard data instead of perceptions data. It classifies firms into four ordinal categories: not credit constrained, maybe credit constrained, partially credit constrained, and fully credit constrained to understand the characteristics of the firms that fall into each group. It also tries to explain what type of credit SMEs use to finance their working capital and their investments. It provides an innovative way of measuring creditconstrained firms based both on their usage of and ability to obtain new credit. 39p
Copies are available for loan to DTI employees and for research purposes only to external clients, on a first-come, first-served basis at the DTI Library, GF Trade and Industry Building, 361 Sen. Gil J. Puyat Avenue, 1200 Makati City. For inquiries/reservation, please call 751.0384 local 2130.
Title
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APEC’s Ease of Doing Business – Interim Assessment 2009- 2012
Publisher
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Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)
Call Number :
45 000/02.09.03/APEC/2013 The report assesses the progress made by APEC in the priority areas included in the Ease of Doing Business (EoDB): 1) starting a business; 2) getting credit; 3) enforcing contracts; 4) trading across borders; and 5) dealing with construction permits. The initiative dates back to February 2009 during Senior Officials meeting in Singapore and agreed to put in place an Action Plan to improve business environment in the APEC region through regulatory reforms that make it cheaper, faster and easier to do business. 50p.
Title
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Urban World: the Shifting Global Business Landscape
Publisher
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McKinsey Global Institute
Authors
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Dobbs, Richard/Remes, Jaana/Smit, Sven/Manyika, James
Call Number :
00 000/03.08/MCK/2013 This report presents continues urbanization research with a focus on understanding the global landscape for large companies – and how it will be reshaped by the rise of thousands of new corporate giants based in the emerging world. It also helps business and policy leaders understand the forces transforming the global economy, identify strategic locations, and prepare for the next wave of growth. 42p.
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