- Fast-Tracking SME Sustainability Could Accelerate Global Climate . . .
Tianjin, People’s Republic of China, 23 June 2025 – Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) represent 90% of businesses globally and account for 40%-60% of business-sector greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, yet they remain one of the most under-supported segments in the global sustainability transition
- Driving global growth through the power of small business
Public-private partnership is key to delivering the financial education, acceptance of digital payments, and increased access to capital that small businesses need
- 3 ways to empower SMEs and create global cyber resilience
The biggest cyber risk to the global economy is attacks on the often-overlooked and more vulnerable small and medium-sized enterprises SMEs form supply chains, power economies and provide employment, but have smaller budgets and fewer resources to handle cybersecurity Smaller businesses can follow three pathways to stronger cyber resilience, collectively, and by doing so, also strengthen the
- Heres how SMEs can turn cybersecurity risk into opportunity
For SMEs, cybersecurity can be a costly and difficult endeavor — but it doesn't have to be that way Here's how SMEs can turn cyber risk into opportunity
- Report: 5 key insights on the future-readiness of SMEs
SMEs play a significant role in enabling and shaping the nature of innovation We share the insights of over 300 CEOs and founders of forward-looking SMEs
- Want to invest in Africa? Time to think smaller and smarter
For Africa’s SMMEs, stronger systems, better technology, sound governance and targeted training can enable businesses to scale into the middle market and drive sustainable development gains
- The big opportunity behind small businesses | World Economic Forum
This includes our future readiness self-assessment and benchmarking tool, the creation of an SME digital community for peer-to-peer learning between companies as well as meet-ups with experts and the expansion of our New Champions community, a select group of mission-driven mid-sized companies
- Small Business, Big Problem: New Report Says 67% of SMEs Worldwide Are . . .
Geneva, Switzerland, 2 December 2022 – Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and mid-sized companies are the backbone of the global economy They create close to 70% of jobs and GDP worldwide But, amid warnings of a global recession, research from the World Economic Forum and the National University of Singapore Business School indicates that 67% of executives from SMEs cite survival
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