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Rapid Review of Water Knowledge for Pacific Small Islands Developing States
World Bank Group - 2018
The rapid review confirms that Pacific Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are socially, culturally, and environmentally diverse, with some features in common, and which collectively make them unique to other regions of the world: Small island countries have uniquely fragile water resources...
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Capital Markets and SMEs in Emerging Markets and Developing Economies : Can They Go the Distance?
World Bank Group - 2020
that started in 2007, there has been an active debate about the role that capital markets can play in SME financing. This … report seeks to enhance practitioners' understanding of the potential role that capital markets can have in SME financing in …-based solutions to expand SME financing with a view to identifying key preconditions and challenges for EMDEs implementing the …
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Structural Transformation of Small Farms in Moldova : Implications for Poverty Reduction and Shared Prosperity
World Bank Group - 2016
The agricultural and food production sector plays a key role in fighting poverty and food insecurity in Moldova, but is facing critical challenges to modernize and integrate into the international market. This paper focuses on smallholder farms, which make up 95 percent of all farms, and...
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Malawi - Gender-Based Violence Assessment : Scope, Programming, Gaps and Entry Points
World Bank Group - 2022
The objective of this assessment is to provide background information about GBV issues, policies, programming, and gaps in Malawi, for the purpose of assisting the World Bank (WB) to 1) consider how to directly support efforts to address GBV in Malawi; 2) inform strategies for integrating...
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Assessment of Long-term Finance Providers for Small and Medium Agribusinesses : Stocktaking, Lessons, and Case Studies
World Bank Group - 2021
as follows: The introduction contains a brief discussion of the importance of LT agribusiness SME finance. The second …
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Chad SME Competitiveness and Global Value Chain Upgrading Diagnostics with Focus on Opportunities in the Domestic and Regional Markets
World Bank Group - 2021
This study aims to explore ways in which key competencies of the oil and gas industry could be leveraged to support the diversification of the Chadian economy. The analysis focused on identifying opportunities and prioritizing core competencies in specific segments of the oil and gas value chain...
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Innovation in Electronic Payment Adoption : The Case of Small Retailers
World Bank Group - 2016
This report aims to deepen the understanding of barriers to and incentives for the acceptance and use of electronic payments, from the perspective of micro, small and medium retailers (merchants). Developing and accelerating acceptance of electronic payments by these merchants is essential to...
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Access to Finance for Micro, Small, and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Bosnia and Herzegovina with a Focus on Gender : A Survey Report
World Bank Group - 2018
Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP) Update, as well as on lessons learned from the BiH Enhancing SME Access to Finance …
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Partnership for Growth : Linking Large Firms and Agro-Processing SMEs
World Bank Group - 2018
literature review was conducted to identify results and outcomes of recently implemented lead firm - SME linkage programs. Second … contextual insights, which they can consider when designing lead firm - SME linkage programs …
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Vietnam Enhancing Enterprise Competitiveness and SME Linkages : Lessons from International and National Experience
World Bank Group - 2017
Boosting productivity growth, especially that of the domestic private sector, is a key priority of Vietnam. The country has been successful in attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) and entering global value chains (GVCs). Most local firms, however, are small and only serve the domestic...
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