However, that was started and helped along mainly by private entrepreneurs with minimal governmental money.
But for all their worries, private entrepreneurs are gaining wealth faster than any other group, thanks to market-oriented reforms.
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The second group covers private entrepreneurs, their employees and archetypal small shopkeepers.
Without enough cash or cachet to get involved with the national banks, China's private entrepreneurs have been turning to smaller city commercial banks.
How exactly the money will help the preservation effort is not yet known, but a growing number of the old buildings are being done up by private entrepreneurs.
This year 34 private entrepreneurs have been chosen as delegates to the Congress, up from just 17 at the 17th Party Congress in 2007, according to statistics revealed by state-run China Economic Weekly.
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We love to valorize private sector entrepreneurs, and it is true that the private sector is where much of this innovation ultimately happens.
Private sector entrepreneurs and corporations, working in their own financial self-interest, discovered the natural gas and developed the technologies to recover it in an economically productive manner.
Why in the world do we need the government to do what private-sector entrepreneurs would gladly do if given the opportunity?
The Energy Datapalooza will demonstrate how private-sector entrepreneurs are creating jobs and helping Americans save money, using open data as their fuel.
Yet while city government is broken, population is shrinking and many services are lacking, downtown Detroit is booming, thanks to private investment from entrepreneurs like Gilbert and Ilitch.
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At CircleUp, the investors on our platform include angel networks, successful consumer entrepreneurs and private equity professionals.
Mentorship of entrepreneurs drives private sector development, and creates local heroes.
In the U.S., such dreams are being pursued by entrepreneurs and private entities working both independently and with NASA ( Elon Musk is the best example of that).
As I am seeing with this investment, when private capital, driven entrepreneurs, innovative technology, and cooperative governments and regulators come together, the collaborative effort can produce positive change.
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This Income Tax Vacation aims the tax cut (i.e. stimulus) at the group that actually makes a difference: the innovators, investors, small business owners, entrepreneurs and private sector taxpayers.
In addition to income measurement, a research team led by Professor Zhou Xiaohong in Nanjing University further defined middle class occupations as professionals in management and technology, entrepreneurs, private business owners, and civil servants (meaning government officials).
Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, private-sector Chinese entrepreneurs could set up offshore ownership structures in Hong Kong, the U.S. or the Cayman Islands, that through a new Chinese subsidiary would acquire operating business assets in China.
Third, we worked to highlight and stimulate new uses of these liberated data by private-sector companies, entrepreneurs, and non-profits.
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Doctors, nurses and other care providers, hospitals, health systems, payers, technology entrepreneurs and other private sector organizations, faith-based organizations, local governments, and public-private partnerships are some of the professionals and organizations we expect to apply.
The sector became more popular over the past few years after catching the eye of a growing number of private-equity investors and entrepreneurs who, armed with cheap financing and dwindling options for high-yielding investments, started bidding up properties.
Some of the most cutting edge work in K-12 is being led by social entrepreneurs starting new private schools to eliminate the achievement gaps among underserved students, like Rocketship Education in the US, Spark Schools in South Africa and Innova Schools in Peru.
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Now the barriers between public and private sectors are eroding, allowing entrepreneurs into the state system.
The budget cuts would force layoffs of scientists and engineers, shrink the capabilities of laboratories and universities to perform the most critical cutting-edge energy research projects, and, by cutting funds for highly leveraged loan guarantee programs, steer private sector funds away from American entrepreneurs and small businesses looking to demonstrate and deploy innovative energy technologies.
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It is standard practice for film companies and technology entrepreneurs to raise funding from private investors.
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In other words, a free market revolution that would create opportunities for entrepreneurs to start and grow private businesses.
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Some examples: The German government-owned development bank KfW has launched the first public-private parallel investment program specifically for social entrepreneurs.
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And the waters they prefer to test may be those of private-equity firms, with which entrepreneurs who made their fortune building companies are often more comfortable.
Even in classical populist regimes which were authoritarian, entrepreneurs could often be intimidated but private property was never eradicated.
It is then possible for a market to develop in which schools, hospitals and local councils buy capacity and entrepreneurs can establish self-sustaining private telecentres.
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