RETAILERS AND SMALL BUSINESSES ARE ELIGIBLE FOR EMERGENCY CREDIT

Highlights

• All the assistance under this scheme will be sent in the form of additional working capital through a term loan facility for the eligible MSMEs and businesses

• As per CAIT, retailers and small businesses lost business worth Rs 9 lakh crore, while the Ce...

AFTER MSMEs, INDIA’S ECONOMIC PACKAGE FOCUSES ON SELF-EMPLOYED & MIGRANT WORKERS

Following Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement of economic package worth Rs 20 lakh crore, Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman came on Wednesday and announced measures which focused on reviving MSMEs and small businesses. On Thursday, FM Sitharaman came with further breakup of...

WASHINGTON'S SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS CONNECT ONLINE WITH CUSTOMERS

Highlights:

• Small service business owners are making creative online videos to stay in touch with their customers
• Washington is now biking more to stay fit and save money.

With the ban on non-essential businesses, shops, gyms, exhibition galleries, a...

KOREA INTENDS PROPPING SME’S BY PAYING MONEY UPFRONT

• The Korean Government is undertaking a slew of measures to bring the small business enterprises back on track.
• The Government will spend money upfront to help businesses weather the loss.

The self-employed and small businesses have been under ...

Hope Mwanake understands better than most of Kenya's plastic pollution crisis

An environmental scientist running a waste collection system in Gilgil, Kenya's central city, she observed the mountains of plastic buckets, bottles and jerrycans discarded by people, hotels, shops and schools at first hand.

"We just poured all the plastic in the garbage. It di...