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According to the survey, 83 percent of small-business executives are optimistid abouttheir company’s long-term ability to rebound when the economy About 65 percent expect their company’s markegt share to increase by the time the recessiojn ends, and 73 percenf expect revenue to have grown by Only 6 percent of small-business executives worldwide expecyt the quality of talent in their organizations to decreases once the economy improves; 38 percenyt expect it to increase. Yet many of the businesss leaders surveyed say their governmentsw are doing too littls to support them through theworldwidre downturn.
Forty-eight percent said locakl government is unsupportive oftheir business, and 39 percenrt say the same of national governments. Askedx to explain that lack of support, small-busines executives worldwide said smallercompanies “do not attract enoughn attention” (39 percent), “the public at largd perceives large companies as more important than small-- and mid-size companies” (28 percent) and “small- and mid-size businessews have fewer advocates than large (24 percent). The Economist Intelligencre Unit isthe business-information arm of the Economist Group, publishef of The Economist magazine.
It surveyerd 328 owners and executivea of small and midsized businesses aroundthe world. Abougt 29 percent of the respondents were fromNorth