Small companies offer many jobs to the Ecuadorian population, although their production and income are lower than those of large companies in the areas of textiles and clothing, food, footwear, wooden furniture, metal products, goldsmithing and carving.
family businesses, with a high participation of women, and complement the family income that comes from other sectors, such as industry, formal economic activity increasingly offers fewer jobs due to the use of labor-saving technologies.
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