The literature on small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) finance highlights linkages with large firms in value chains … implications for SMEs. This paper explores this gap by looking for evidence on the impact of SMEs' access to finance of inter … technologies in Costa Rica), a comparison between the different sources and instruments of finance used by SMEs is presented. A …

The Bank is receiving an increasing number of requests from state and municipal governments to finance publicly owned …

that shows the clear disadvantages of the informal risk management instruments typically used by the poor. Next, the paper …