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Covid-19 prompts spurt in new, small businesses like no other crisis
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Published Thu, Dec 3, 2020 · 09:50 PM
Singapore
THE Covid-19 crisis has thrown Singapore into its worst recession since independence. But it has also ignited the biggest spark of small business formation in crisis times.
The Business Times found that the Republic has seen a mushrooming number of businesses formed over the past five months - since emerging from the partial lockdown in June - and across the year.
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