Small businesses and AI: Accelerating innovation and inclusion

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Highly confident, women entrepreneurs still face systemic barriers

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How data and AI can drive change: 4 ways forward

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Unlocking the power of small businesses to drive climate-smart inclusive growth

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A firm with a healthy profit margin will find it much easier to deal with volatility, in general, than one with very small margins. Larger profits make it easier to save, easier to borrow and easier to absorb short-term shocks. This article, however, discusses how difficult it actually can be to calculate the profitability of a firm and the many issues small businesses face.

Financial Access Initiative at NYU

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Calculating Weekly Profit: If We Can, Should We?

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