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Vietnam: 7th Micro Enterprises Sub-Group Meeting opens in Hanoi

September 25, 2006
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(Thai Press Reports Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge) Section: Regional News - Under the framework of the 13th SME Ministerial Meeting, the seventh Micro Enterprises Sub-Group Meeting (MESG) opened in Hanoi on September 25.

Present at the meeting were APEC member economies, the APEC secretariat, APEC official observers as well as Macau and Chinese observers.

The meeting is aimed at discussing the theme Building ME capacity for market integration and sub-themes on business enabling environment for micro-enterprises, facilitating micro-enterprises to resources, enhancing business opportunities for micro-enterprises.



According to the 2002 Establishments Census in Vietnam, there were about 2.7 million micro enterprises, constituting over 97 percent of all business entities and generating over 5 million jobs, which accounted for about 52 percent of all non-farm employment.

The majority of theses businesses were engaged in retail trade, manufacturing, hotels and restaurants, transportation and personal services.

Speaking at the meeting, director general of the agency for SME Development under the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) Nguyen Van Trung said - I am sure that we can all share our first hand experiences regarding the difficulties of reaching millions of micro entrepreneurs with effective support measures and programmes'.

As the leader of the Agency for SME Development, I am looking forward to the discussions and the joint-learning opportunity we will have during the Micro Enterprise Sub-Group and would like to offer my support to the theme and meeting format proposed by the Australian Delegation for the Micro Enterprises Sub-Group Meeting in 2007, he said.

During the meeting, delegates also heard the Micro Enterprises 2006 Work Plan, evaluation reports on APEC funded projects and new project proposals. - VOV

Copyright 2006 Thai Press Reports


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