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Micro and small businesses prefer to remain “informal”

By Grace Melanie L. Lacamiento | May 15, 2013 - 12:00am

Although enterprise formalization is promoted as a tool for private sector development, most of the micro and small businesses in developing countries do not consider it as an effective strategy towards efficiency...

Freeman Cebu Business

Micro, small enterprises told to work on upgrade

By Grace Melanie L. Lacamiento | May 13, 2013 - 12:00am

Same as large firms, micro and small enterprises (MSE) are encouraged to work on their upgrading to contribute further in the economic development of the country.

Freeman Cebu Business

Funding, literacy constraints impede Phl MSME upgrade

By Grace Melanie L. Lacamiento | May 11, 2013 - 12:00am

An internationally-initiated study revealed that majority of the micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in the Philippines found upgrading to be extremely hard to sustain due to specific constraints that impede...

Freeman Cebu Business