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International Finance Corporation - 2023

High costs and logistical challenges are just two of the barriers that hamper small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and microentrepreneurs from fully participating in the growing e-commerce sector. However, Indonesian social commerce company, Evermos, used inclusive employment practices to...

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Women and E-commerce in Southeast Asia

International Finance Corporation - 2021

The rapid digital transformation underway in Southeast Asia has the potential to have an equally transformative impact on women entrepreneurs. Although Southeast Asia boasts a higher incidence of women entrepreneurs compared to men, women-owned (WO) businesses tend to be smaller, have lower...

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Women and E-commerce in Africa

International Finance Corporation - 2021

The rapid digital transformation underway in Africa has the potential to have an equally transformative impact on women entrepreneurs. Although Africa boasts a higher incidence of women entrepreneurs compared to men, women-owned (WO) businesses across the continent tend to be smaller, have lower...

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Small Beginnings for Great 0pportunities : Lessons Learned from 20 years of Microfinance Projects in IFC

International Finance Corporation - 2015

By increasing access to finance for out-of-reach households and families, microfinance continues to be an essential … microfinance sector. From its early stages in small-scale microenterprise lending, through its commercial expansion to offer … technological innovations, microfinance is ensuring that an ever-greater number of households have permanent access to a range of …

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Access to Finance for Smallholder Farmers

International Finance Corporation - 2014

challenges of agricultural finance. The evidence of microfinance institution (MFI) involvement in financing commercial and semi …

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Experiences of Microfinance Institutions Serving Very Small to Small Enterprises in Latin America

International Finance Corporation - 2014

and medium enterprises (SMEs) to be a more natural market for their products and services. Microfinance Institutions (MFIs …

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Transforming Microfinance Institutions in the Arab World : Opportunities, Challenges and Alignment of Interest

International Finance Corporation - 2018

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Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise Finance : Improving Access to Finance for Women-Owned Business in India

International Finance Corporation - 2017

Lending to women-owned micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) as a distinct segment is still unexplored when compared to lending to MSMEs in India. Due to a lack of segmental focus and, perhaps, due to a higher perception of risk, formal financial institutions have made little effort to...

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Ending the Microfinance Crisis in Morocco : Acting Early, Acting Right

International Finance Corporation - 2014

In the fall of 2008, the Moroccan microfinance sector underwent what in economics is referred to as a Minsky moment … portfolios of the country's four largest Microfinance Institutions (MFIs), and one in particular - Zakoura. This study picks up … meant to cover the full Moroccan microfinance sector, due to constraints of time and availability of data, its primary focus …

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Developing a Housing Microfinance Product : The First Microfinance Bank's Experience in Afghanistan

International Finance Corporation - 2013

The objective of this case study is to document an example of the successful design and implementation of housing micronance (HMF) products by analyzing the approach taken by the First Micronance Bank of Afghanistan (FMFB-A) from 2009 to 2013. This report aims to encourage other lenders to...

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