Grit and grace: US women business owners persevere through COVID
One year after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic and a major threat, triggering the first round of economy-gutting lockdowns, the global economy is still very much in recovery mode — and small business owners have borne the brunt of the downturn. Small- and medium-sized enterprises account for 90 percent of businesses worldwide and 50 percent of global employment. But even before the coronavirus pandemic, many didn’t have the access to capital, credit and technical know-how that their bigger competitors did — especially businesses owned by women and people of co...
Source: aljazeera.com