Table of Contents
CHAIRMAN'S FOREWORD
LIST OF RECOMMENDATIONS
INTRODUCTION
- Organization of the report
CHAPTER ONE: GOVERNMENT AND SME PERFORMANCE
IN THE WORLD ECONOMY
- GLOBALIZATION AND CANADIAN SMEs
- CHANGING MARKET ENVIRONMENT FOR SMEs
- WHY IS GOVERNMENT CONCERNED ABOUT SMEs?
- SMEs as the engine of economic growth
- Linkages between trade policy and trade development
- THE INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT INDUSTRY IN CANADA
- WHAT IS GOVERNMENT DOING FOR SMEs?
- Budget allocations
- PRELIMINARY CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
CHAPTER TWO: ACCESS TO EXPORT CREDIT, WORKING
CAPITAL AND OTHER FINANCIAL SERVICES
- THE NEED
- GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS AND SERVICES
- The Export Development Corporation
- EDC's role in export finance
- EDC's specialization in credit and risk insurance
- The Master Accounts Receivable Guarantee (MARG) Program
- SERVICING THE SME: ASSESSING GOVERNMENT-SPONSORED
EXPORT FINANCE SERVICES
- RECOMMENDATIONS
- Progress Payment Program of the Canadian Commercial Corporation
- CIDA
CHAPTER THREE: MARKET INFORMATION/INTELLIGENCE SERVICES
- THE NEED
- CORRUPT PRACTICES IN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
- GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS AND SERVICES
- Support for government-sponsored trade fairs and missions
- The Trade Commissioner Service
- APPROPRIATE ROLE FOR GOVERNMENT IN MARKET
INTELLIGENCE SERVICES
- Capitalizing on Canada's linguistic, multicultural and geographic advantages
CHAPTER FOUR: COMPETITIVENESS ISSUES
- THE NEED
- Removing Disadvantageous Regulations
- Strategies of SMEs for exporting
- FEDERAL PROGRAMS
- FEDERAL-PROVINCIAL COOPERATION
- INVOLVEMENT OF MUNICIPALITIES IN INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND BUSINESS
DEVELOPMENT
- TRADE AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT: NEED FOR CLARIFICATION
CHAPTER FIVE: DEFINING AN APPROPRIATE ROLE FOR
GOVERNMENT IN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
- HUMAN RIGHTS AND TRADE: THE GOVERNMENT'S ROLE