they were available, but are often denied access to financing. This impedes their creation and growth. The "financing gap …" was the subject of the OECD Global Conference on "Better Financing for Entrepreneurship & SME Growth", held in Brasilia …, Brazil in March 2006. This book presents a synthesis of the Conference discussions on the credit and equity financing gaps …

; SME access to financing, technology, innovation and international markets; women’s entrepreneurship; and local policy …

activities or seeking to de-leverage and improve their capital structures. This report maps a broad range of external financing …

other hand, other sources of finance declined, in particular early-stage equity. This paper, a special edition of Financing …. It reveals that the pre-crisis financing environment was broadly favourable for SMEs and entrepreneurs, who benefited … from low interest rates, loose credit standards and an increasingly diverse offer of financing instruments. It documents …