challenges and opportunities related to financing agriculture, followed by defining the target group of agricultural SME s …

. Access to finance remains a key constraint to SME development in emerging economies. Closing the credit gap for formal SMEs … will be less daunting than for informal SMEs. The SME finance gap is the result of a mismatch between the needs of the … enabling environment and residual market failures have motivated government interventions to foster SME access to financing …

of fast-growing SMEs, or gazelles. The new findings further detail availability and gaps in SME financing, including for … findings also include key private sector innovations pioneered by the SME Finance Challenge winners and other private sector … improve SME access to finance, and some of the major outstanding issues and obstacles these platforms might address. The …

frictions that SMEs face to access finance. Section three explores how digitization is an enabler for SME finance and how … digitization of business processes, which contribute to addressing the barriers and frictions to SME access to finance, are also …