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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...
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A firm-level analysis of small and medium size enterprise financing in Poland
Klapper, Leora - 2006
"The authors test competing theories of capital structure choices using firm-level data on firm borrowings. The majority of firms in the dataset are privately owned, young, micro or small and medium enterprise (SME) firms concentrated in the service sector. In general, the financing pattern of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522078
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Financing firms in India
Allen, Franklin (contributor) - 2006
"The authors examine the legal and business environments, financing channels, and governance mechanisms of various types of firms in India and compare them to those from other countries. Despite its English commonlaw origin, strong legal protection provided by the law, and a democratic...
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A more complete conceptual framework for financing of small and medium enterprises
Berger, Allen N. - 2005
"The authors propose a more complete conceptual framework for analysis of credit availability for small and medium enterprises (SMEs). In this framework, lending technologies are the key conduit through which government policies and national financial structures affect credit availability. They...
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Financing small and medium-size enterprises with factoring : global growth and its potential in Eastern Europe
Udell, Gregory F. - 2004
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Peru - Developing New Structured Financial Products to Channel Savings Towards Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) Growth
World Bank - 2012
particular as means to address the problems of access to finance faced by underserved segments such as Small and Medium …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012550806
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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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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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SABER--Teachers : Country Report, Serbia 2012
World Bank - 2014
related to teacher management and thus how to make well-informed policy choices that will lead to improved learning outcomes. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012560537
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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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