Example collocations logo

Businesses in sentence

2499 examples of Businesses in a sentence

Indeed, women-owned businesses’ unmet financial needs are estimated to total $260-320 billion annually, with medium-size businesses most adversely affected.
After all, microfinance institutions serve small business, and traditional banks are more likely to lend to larger businesses – leaving those in the middle to fend for themselves.
This may explain the growing efforts of Chinese businesses in recent years to go global themselves.
The program could also offer disrupted Syrian businesses a chance to restart in new facilities.
But this sharp wage increase hit small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) and self-employed businesses hard.
According to Moon, the costs will be more than worthwhile, because inter-Korean economic cooperation could kick-start economic growth, with North Korea serving as a new market for South Korean businesses.
We will also seek to finalize the unification of the PIS/Cofins taxes, Brazil’s overly complicated – and much-criticized – federal taxes levied on businesses’ invoicing.
Declining remittances from overseas workers, shrinking trade flows and investment could undermine new businesses, throw thousands out of work, and increase tensions and instability.
Self-employment as well small and medium sized businesses have to be the way out.
To achieve this, the McKinsey study recommends that governments, non-profits, and businesses emphasize progress in four key areas: education, legal rights, access to financial and digital services, and unpaid care work.
If men shared such responsibilities more equitably, businesses adopted more flexible and “care-friendly” work schedules, and governments provided more support for childcare and other family-care functions, female labor-force participation rates could rise significantly.
In a more open system, Arab governments will need to privatize many state-controlled companies, and make it far easier for entrepreneurs to register start-ups and launch new businesses.
Incorporating sustainability forces governments and businesses to consider the environmental impact of their decisions.
For investors and businesses – perhaps including India’s small shopkeepers – this is where the really interesting opportunities will emerge.
For starters, the argument that the UK could negotiate favorable terms for selling its goods in the EU makes little sense, as Europe’s single market matters far more to British exporters than the UK market matters to European businesses.
Mixed marriages abound;Russian is the region's lingua franca;Russian businesses (like Gazprom) dominate.
By investing in “smart” and “resilient” urban planning, governments from Bordeaux in France to Curitiba in Brazil are strengthening their brand identities and luring talent, investment, and businesses from around the world.
Russian and foreign businesses have always been worried about the unpredictability of the country’s political leadership.
As with unfair or illegal labor practices, businesses must refuse to sponsor, supply, or work with organizations that fail to protect their workers from sexual abuse.
But it is worth remembering that a weak euro is not all pain; it makes European businesses highly competitive.
The Business of Business is More Than BusinessBERKELEY – Earlier this year, Robert Simons of Harvard Business School fired off a blistering indictment of American businesses and business schools.
In reality, when businesses make decisions, they have to balance these interests.
Third, businesses can also affect shareholders’ interests over time.
Companies need customers who can afford their products, which means that businesses benefit from social stability and broad prosperity.
Businesses that ignore the broader social and environmental context in which they operate are likely to pay a price: reputational damage and loss of brand value, falling sales, difficulties in recruiting talent, lower worker productivity, corruption, tougher government regulation, or an increase in climate-change-related costs.
The Friedman-Simons view that businesses’ sole social responsibility is to increase profits assumes that competent, non-corrupt governments both provide the public goods necessary for a prosperous economy and contain the negative externalities, like pollution and climate change, that result from private economic activities.
But, in the actual societies in which businesses function, governments are often unable or unwilling to provide required public goods or curb negative externalities.
But businesses cannot solve such problems by themselves.
Gone are the days when Europe’s “tech” sector largely comprised consumer-oriented e-commerce businesses – often blatant knockoffs of successful US companies.
Another study, by the Boston Consulting Group, points out that many small export-oriented European Union member countries – namely, the Benelux, Baltic, and Nordic countries – rank well above the US in so-called “e-intensity,” which covers IT infrastructure, Internet access, as well as businesses, consumer, and government engagement in Internet-related activities.
BackNext