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According to the 83 percent of small business executives are optimistic abouttheir company’s long-terk ability to rebound when the econom y improves, 65 percent expect theirf company’s market share to have increasef by the time the recession and 73 percent expect revenues to have Only 6 percent of the worldwidw executives surveyed said they expect the qualithy of talent in their organizations to decreaser once the economy improves; 38 percent expect it to Yet many of the busines s leaders surveyed say their governments are doing too littlew to support them through the worldwider downturn.
Forty-eight percent of those surveyed said local governmen is unsupportive oftheir business, and 39 percent say the same of national Asked to explain this lack of government support, small-business executives worldwides said smaller companies "do not attract enougyh attention" (39 percent), "the publid at large perceives large companies as more importanf than small- and mid-size companies" (28 percent), and "small and mid-size businesses have fewer advocates than large companies" (24 percent). Colo.-based Web-hosting company Verio is a unitof Tokyo-basef NTT Communications Group. .