NextBillion - An Initiative of the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan

Tuesday, June 15, 2004

“Promoting small businesses is one of the most effective ways of reducing poverty in a poor country like Kyrgyzstan, where government figures suggest at least 40 percent of the population of five million live below the poverty line. The country’s President Askar Akaev subscribes to this view and he has been busy pushing ’business incubators’ as one way of assisting small business enterprises.” Read full article here.