This study sheds light on small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) financing and its performance in Thailand. It … elaborates on the key sources of finance existing for Thai manufacturing SMEs and their importance for SME performance as … enhancing SME access to external finance. Our results confirm that retained earnings are crucial to increase SME technical …

The aim of this study was to ascertain what can be done by the informal finance sector to close the credit gap in order … as a last resort by SMEs that fail to access credit from the formal finance sector, owing to, among other issues … absence of credit bureaus in developing countries also contribute to the failure to access finance from formal institutions …