Have you been SMEED

Mauritius - from where I have just returned - like many other countries has a government-funded agency charged with aiding the development of SMEs.

Mauritius - like many other countries - seems to spend quite a bit of money on such support ... but with little obvious effect.

Are we people in SMEs so hard to please ... so hard to support?  Or is it that those who have been supported effectively are no longer SMEs?  They have moved upwards, onwards and out of the SME bracket.