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Tuesday, February 22, 2005
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The Dire State of Israeli Small Business
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If you think your business is challenging, imagine what it must be like to be a small business in Israel.
Small businesses represent over 97% of all firms in Israel. They constitute the only sector to have created new jobs in the last decade.
Yet, look at the economic challenges that Israel faces: growing poverty, ongoing credit crunch, technology market crash, recession, high unemployment, the Intifada....
The impact of the Intifada has been particularly devastating on small businesses, especially tourism-related businesses. This chart outlining the drop in small business revenues in Jerusalem illustrates how hard they've been hit economically:
From the January 2005 report by the Milken Institute: "Building Israel's Small Business and Microenterprise Sector" (requires free registration).
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By Anita Campbell | Permalink |
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