Today in Global Small Business: Global Small Businesses Need Financial Services, Not Charity

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What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners:

• Global small businesses need financial services, not charity.
• Today’s small businesses face extraordinary multi-layered challenges on local, state, national and global levels.  Here's why.
• China holds the key to speeding up debt relief and ending the “silent crisis” that is holding back attempts to tackle poverty in the world’s poorest countries, a senior World Bank official has said.
• Quote of the week:  "I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver." – Maya Angelou
• A small business incubator coming to east Tulsa, Oklahoma will be a first-of-its-kind resource statewide.
• In case you forgot, the Year of the Dragon (2024) according to the Chinese lunar calendar, small business retailers are poised to embody the dragon's symbolic strengths of power, boldness, and prosperity.

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