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Die Volkswirtschaft der Bundesrepublik Deutschland wird entscheidend durch kleine und mittlere Wirtschaftseinheiten geprägt.1 In kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen (KMU) arbeiten mittlerweile rund zwei Drittel aller sozialversicherungspflichtig Beschäftigten. Ihr Beitrag zur gesamtwirtschaft-lichen Leistung hat an Bedeutung gewonnen - bei den Bruttoinvestitionen und bei der Wertschöpfung bewegt sich ihr Anteil bei über 40 Prozent. Auch bei der Schaffung und Bereitstel-lung von Arbeits- bzw. Ausbildungsplätzen sind KMU führend.

Find attached Magazines from the old Brainstorm Forum, edited by Rainer Kolshorn.

Publised from 1997 until 1999

Castries August 6th 2010–The OECS Export Development Unit, OECS EDU says at least One Hundred and Seventy-five companies across the nine members grouping are to benefit from an ongoing series of National Training Programmes. The workshops are supported by the 9th European Development Fund Caribbean Trade &  Private Sector Development Programme. Read more

Our new CEFE Ambassador in China, Zhonghua Guo, wrote a newsletter about CEFE activties in China. Have a look.

Do you believe the global market economy offers bright opportunities to the west? Do you think, instead, that the best response would be to cut the west off from global trade, capital flows and immigration? Stephen King has an answer to both: you are wrong. The future is going to be tough for the western countries that have enjoyed centuries of economic and political domination. But opting out would make it worse, not better..... you want to read more about this book, click here.

Dear CEFE friends,
Please find an interesting impact summary of CEFE-FORTI in Tunisia (only French available). And take this great contribution from Tahar El Mili as a motivation to write about your programs and to share it with the global CEFE network. Thank you Tahar.
CEFE International

The World Bank Group has launched consultations to gather input for a trade strategy, which is expected to be completed in late 2010. The consultations will be part of a broad effort to gather a wide range of views on how the World Bank Group can help developing countries create opportunities for the poor and grow economies sustainably. Link with video to World Bank.

Finally, we managed to create a Rainer Kolshorn Memorial page on cefe.net.
Please have a look under Trainers&more/Personalities.

We thank all the people that have worked on this project. Thanks for your photos and thoughts.

If you want to add some more information about Rainer Kolshorn, please write an email to info@cefe.net.

CEFE International Team

THE PROLIFERATION OF regional trade
agreements (RTAs) is fundamentally altering
the world trade landscape. The
number of agreements in force now surpasses
200, and it has risen sixfold in just two
decades. Today more than one-third of global
trade takes place between countries that have
some form of reciprocal RTA.1 The European
Union (EU) and United States are playing a
prominent role in this proliferation (figure 1).
This report addresses two questions:

Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) presented interesting findings about the correlation of entrepreneurship training and entrepreneurial society in its recent global report. Read the excerpt.