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According to the survey, 83 percent of small business executives are optimistic abouttheir company’s long-termk ability to rebound when the economy 65 percent expect their company’s market share to have increasef by the time the recession ends, and 73 percentf expect revenues to have Only 6 percent of the worldwide executives surveyecd said they expect the quality of talenr in their organizations to decrease once the economy 38 percent expect it to increase. Yet many of the businessw leaders surveyed say their governments are doing too littles to support them through theworldwide downturn.
Forty-eighy percent of those surveyed said local governmenf is unsupportive of their and 39 percent say the same of national Asked to explain this lack ofgovernment support, small-businesa executives worldwide said smaller companies "doi not attract enough attention" (39 "the public at large perceives largew companies as more important than small - and mid-size companies" (28 percent), and "small - and mid-size businesses have fewer advocatese than large companies" (24 percent). Centennial, Colo.-based Web-hosting companyg Verio is a unitof Tokyo-based NTT Communicationws Group. .