Small business
Evaluation
Review of the Solomon Islands Small Business Enterprise Centre: final report
The last several years have been a challenging time for the board and staff of the Small Business Enterprise Centre as they have recovered, along with the rest of the Solomon Islands, from the tensions and the subsequent arrival of RAMSI in 2003. The Centre is now operating without any impediments and this review is...
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Unfair dismissal policy in the small business sector
The committee argues that government policy on unfair dismissal, in the light of inconclusive evidence, has its basis in an ideological position which has little relevance to the real problems that face small businesses. The claim that exempting small business from unfair dismissal laws will create 77,000 new jobs is unsupportable on the evidence. The...
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Unfair dismissal and small business employment
The committee argues that government policy on unfair dismissal, in the light of inconclusive evidence, has its basis in an ideological position which has little relevance to the real problems that face small businesses. The claim that exempting small business from unfair dismissal laws will create 77,000 new jobs is unsupportable on the evidence. ‘This...
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Protecting small business from misuse of market power
Misuse of market power is both a legal and economic concept. Prohibitions on the misuse of market power are commonly found in anti-trust laws in a number of countries and the prohibition appears as section 46 in Australia's Trade Practices Act 1974 (TPA). Using predatory pricing as an example, this Research Note argues that, since...