The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected businesses owned by Black, Asian and minority ethnic people. Here's how we can help them bounce back.
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The new rules will allow insolvent small businesses to keep trading rather than go straight into administration.
Helping small businesses survive isn't all about tax breaks, red tape and industrial relations changes. Here are four other things governments can do.
South Africa's food system is dominated by big firms, leaving small businesses to supply localised and under-served markets, and provide rural employment. It needs to be inclusive and diverse.
Without policies to address the core needs of small business, Victoria's second wave of restrictions will be a killer blow.
The government wants to help small businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic, but the definition of “small” is still pretty big.
Small businesses are disproportionately affected by natural disasters. To improve community resilience, we need to help them 'build back better'.
The demands of gentrification in some neighbourhoods are proving deadly for some independent businesses, including local bookstores, often forcing them to close.
Mobile loan platforms have given Kenyans access to easy loans, but they come at a high price.
Government policies need to acknowledge individual agency as a mechanism for change, while reducing barriers to income-producing activities.
Ten years ago, almost a third of self-employed people in the UK contributed to pension schemes. That figure has dropped dramatically.
Simply providing more money will not accelerate the growth of small and medium-sized enterprises.
It's not just affecting areas in post-industrial decline – retail spaces are closing and losing value across England and Wales.
About two-thirds of Americans now live in states where marijuana is legal for medicinal or recreational purposes, leading some to worry corporate and Wall Street interests will take over the industry.
South Africa needs to rethink the role of the informal economy as it mulls over ideas to beat joblessness.
In almost every city, consumer demand and business diversity had a big role to play.
Councils are facing their own revenue crisis – and local businesses are paying the price.
Women-owned small business in Tanzania stay away from formal loans because of their negative beliefs about loans.
Most owners of small businesses reconcile competing work and life demands in an ad hoc way.
We may celebrate the contributions of newcomers of the past; however, we make the integration process difficult. Some immigrants turn to business to fill the gaps for themselves and their community.
Top contributors
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Winthrop Professor, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Marketing and Strategy, University of Western Australia
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Professor in Innovation and Deputy Pro Vice-Chancellor, RMIT University
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Economist at Centre of Policy Studies, Victoria University
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Senior Lecturer, Accounting Discipline Group, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior lecturer, University of Technology Sydney
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Lecturer in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, University of Hull
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Visiting Professor of Economics, Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, Croatia
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Professor of Real Estate and Regeneration, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Adjunct Professor, Swinburne University of Technology
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Associate Professor in International Business & Strategic Management, University of Melbourne
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Honorary associate, Department of Political Economy, University of Sydney
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Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow, University of Tasmania
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Adjunct professor, Monash University
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Industry fellow, Graduate School of Business, Deakin University
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John Daley is a Friend of The Conversation.
Senior Fellow, Grattan Institute
