mining poses to forests, the World Bank conceived forest-smart mining as part of their Climate-Smart Mining Initiative, which … funds available to the Extractives Industries and Environment & Natural Resources Units of the World Bank to carry out the …

The Department for International Development (DFID)-Funded Energy Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) Program was … Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP) Energy SME program focused on off-grid electrification and biomass use as many … ongoing World Bank Group investment programs. One of the biggest challenges for SMEs is the need for further support to …

order to achieve a global scale-up of SME access to financial services in the developing world. The G-20 FIEG SME Finance … access to finance remains a key constraint to SME. In the light of the new understanding of the SME finance challenges that … Sub-Group executed a global SME Finance stocktaking exercise with various SME finance models to establish best practices …

"New data from the 2008 World Bank Group Entrepreneurship Survey indicates a very strong and statistically significant … world. Data were also collected on the functioning and structure of business registries. Empirical evidence suggests that … fostering formal sector entrepreneurship. "--World Bank web site …