{"id":261396,"date":"2019-11-04T11:54:55","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T14:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=261396"},"modified":"2019-11-04T12:26:21","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T15:26:21","slug":"small-and-medium-businesses-get-incentives-in-kuwait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/small-and-medium-businesses-get-incentives-in-kuwait\/","title":{"rendered":"Small and medium businesses get incentives in Kuwait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Kuwait supplied financing to 1,035 small and medium businesses in the last three years, <em>Kuwait News Agency<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kuna.net.kw\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>KUNA<\/em><\/a>) reported this Monday (4). The funding amounted to KND 177 million, the equivalent of USD 582 million at current conversion rates.<\/p>\n<p>The numbers were revealed by Public Authority for Industry (PAI) deputy director-general Mohammad Al-Adwani (<em>pictured<\/em>). He said small and medium enterprises drive industrial growth and create jobs in Kuwait. According to Al-Adwani, the administration is creating a business environment that\u2019s welcoming to foreign investment.<\/p>\n<p>He also said industrial production is the focal point of Kuwait\u2019s development strategy through 2035, designed to make Kuwait a global trade hub. \u201cThe government has taken tangible and concrete steps to ensure that local goods would ultimately be synonymous with world-class standards,\u201d said Al-Adwani.<\/p>\n<p>Kuwait is working to encourage the private sector. Measures were put in place including legal reforms, privatizations and public-private partnership projects in fields including real estate, education, water, sewage, transportation and solid waste management. The World Bank recently lauded these efforts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-261393\">KUNA<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Public Authority for Industry said 1,000 companies got USD 582 million in financing over the last three years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":261393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[9600,33904,12374,12373],"class_list":{"0":"post-261396","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-kuwait-en-2","9":"tag-pequenas-empresas-en","10":"tag-small-businesses","11":"tag-smb"},"wps_subtitle":"The Public Authority for Industry said 1,000 companies got USD 582 million in financing over the last three years. ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}