In an Alert published, the SBP-Business Environment Specialists take stock of small business development in South Africa, and argue that SMME policy needs to be re-thought. The government’s initiatives over the past 15 years have fallen disappointingly short of aspirations. Effective small business development on the scale needed requires a new, sustained engagement between the public and private sectors at all levels of government, and must encourages big business to become operationally involved in small business development. The Alert identifies some models that are having a real impact. 

 

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