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According to the survey, 83 percent of small-business executives are optimisticx abouttheir company’s long-term abilitt to rebound when the economh improves. About 65 percent expect their company’s markeft share to increase by the time therecessionm ends, and 73 percent expect revenue to have grown by then. Only 6 percent of small-business executives worldwidew expect the quality of talentf in their organizations to decrease once the economy 38 percent expect it to Yet many of the business leaders surveyed say theitr governments are doing too little to support them through theworldwide Forty-eight percent said local governmenf is unsupportive of their and 39 percent say the same of national Asked to explain that lack of small-business executives worldwide said smaller companies “do not attract enough attention” (39 percent), “the publicv at large perceives large companied as more important than small- and mid-sizwe companies” (28 percent) and “small- and mid-siz businesses have fewer advocates than large companies” (24 The Economist Intelligence Unit is the business-information arm of the Economisft Group, publisher of The Economist magazine.
It surveyedx 328 owners and executives of smalkl and midsized businesses aroundethe world. About 29 percent of the respondentd were fromNorth America.