What SMEs Need to Know About Child Labor in Turkey
9 July 2021
Globally, around 168 million children aged 5-14 work, preventing them from attending school and making it harder for them to achieve their full potential. Conflicts and crises...
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New Report: Women’s Entrepreneurship in Syrian-Owned Businesses in Turkey
25 August 2020
Eliminating poverty, improving household incomes, and supporting the growth of national economies can be achieved with the full economic participation of both women and men. W...
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Our Thanks, Our Impact, and a Request
18 December 2019
Since 2006, Building Markets has worked with 25,000 small businesses in crisis-affected parts of the world, and helped them create over 70,000 full-time equivalent jobs. Those...
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No surprise to us – but Jordan is getting a boost from an unlikely place
29 July 2019
Over the last 8 years, the Syria crisis has created 12 million refugees and internally displaced persons. Just imagine for a moment if the entire populations of Los Angeles, C...
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Syrian-owned SMEs Advance Sustainable Development Goals in Turkey
25 June 2021
Building Markets’ network of over 2,000 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Turkey presents an opportunity to make significant contributions to the country’s Sust...
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The Road Back from COVID-19 will be Paved by Small Businesses around the World
22 June 2020
From trade to production to investment to employment, every aspect of the global economy has been negatively impacted by COVID-19. As a result, the OECD forecasts that global ...
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Syrian-owned Businesses Draw Foreign Investment and Create Jobs in Turkey: The Story of Wolves Interactive
13 November 2019
In 2018, more than 70 million people were forcibly displaced worldwide with Turkey maintaining the top spot as largest country host with 3.7 million Syrians. This comes with ...
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Building Markets Champions Jordanian Companies
14 March 2019
Building Markets is pleased to announce that it has expanded its matchmaking platform to include Jordan – where more than 300 local small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs...
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Small Businesses Change the World
20 June 2021
These days, everyone seems to find a way of squeezing words into awkward acronyms. For example, consider: MSME. It doesn’t just slide off the tongue, does it? But, it does m...
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Managing a Global Team through a Global Crisis
24 March 2020
We, like many of you, are working hard to continue operations and keep our people safe in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. An added challenge for us is that our team is ...
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ليس من المفاجئ لنا – الاردن يحصل على دعم من جهات غير متوقعة
24 September 2019
على مدار الأعوام الثمانية الماضية، خلقت الأزمة السورية 12 مليون لاجئ ومشرد داخلياً. فقط تخيل للح...
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Identifying Impact Lessons on a Locally Driven Crisis Response. A Post from our Summer Intern, Gita Goolsarran
19 October 2018
The Syrian war has presented one of the most acute humanitarian crises of the 21st Century, with neighbouring states hosting 5.6 million registered refugees since 2011.[1]In t...
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