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SABER--Teachers : Country Report, Serbia 2012
World Bank - 2014
Research suggests that teacher quality is the main school-based predictor of student achievement and that several consecutive years of outstanding teaching can offset the learning deficits of disadvantaged students. However, it is not yet clear exactly which teacher policies can raise teacher...
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Ready for Growth : Solutions to Increase Access to Finance for Women-Owned Businesses in the Middle East and North Africa
World Bank - 2013
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is at one of the most critical turning points in its modern history. The Arab spring was driven by the desire for economic opportunity and justice in the face of poverty and unemployment. The development of strong economies that enable both women...
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Peru - Developing New Structured Financial Products to Channel Savings Towards Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) Growth
World Bank - 2012
The objective of this study is to contribute to the development of new structured financial products in Peru, in particular as means to address the problems of access to finance faced by underserved segments such as Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). This document reviews how structured...
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Colombia : Bank Financing to Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) in Colombia
World Bank - 2012
. One of the lessons of the last few years is that banks will expand SME lending on their own accord - in spite of the …
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Albania : Access to Finance for Enterprise Sector
World Bank - 2012
This report was prepared in close collaboration with the Bank of Albania. This report focused on trade, services, and agriculture; however, the limited scope of their operations still leaves a potentially large unmet demand for credit in agriculture. This report focuses on problems related to the...
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Scaling-Up SME Access to Financial Services
World Bank - 2013
access to finance remains a key constraint to SME. In the light of the new understanding of the SME finance challenges that … order to achieve a global scale-up of SME access to financial services in the developing world. The G-20 FIEG SME Finance … Sub-Group executed a global SME Finance stocktaking exercise with various SME finance models to establish best practices …
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Policy Note on SMEs Access to Finance in Tunisia
World Bank - 2013
The Tunisian government has long been aware of the need to support companies in their search for financing. Over the last decade, the government has strengthened legal and regulatory frameworks in this area, created public financing systems, facilitated the development of financial markets and...
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Fintech and SME Finance : Expanding Responsible Access
International Finance Corporation; World Bank - 2022
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 …
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Drivers and obstacles to banking SMEs : the role of competition and the institutional framework
Torre, Augusto de la - 2008
"This paper studies the factors banks perceive as drivers and obstacles to financing small and medium enterprises (SMEs), focusing on the role of competition and the institutional framework. Using a survey of banks in Argentina and Chile, the paper shows that, despite alleged differences in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010520971
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A firm-level analysis of small and medium size enterprise financing in Poland
Klapper, Leora - 2006
majority of firms in the dataset are privately owned, young, micro or small and medium enterprise (SME) firms concentrated in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522078