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Korean government has invested significant amount of resources through credit guarantee funds to promote SMEs survival …
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We are the first to provide a comparative empirical analysis of non-farm entrepreneurship in rural Africa, using the World Bank's unique LSMSISA dataset. This dataset covers six countries over the period 2005 to 2012. We find that rural enterprises tend to be small, informal household...
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Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are known to contribute significantly to aggregate economic growth. However …
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The study utilises the International Labor Organization's SMEs COVID-19 pandemic business risks scale to determine … whether Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications are associated with reduced business risks for SMEs. A new 10-item scale was … collected from 317 SMEs between April and June 2020, with follow-up data gathered between October and December 2020 in London …
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We examine the impact of management practices on firm performance among SMEs in Britain over the period 2011 … business register. We find that SMEs are less likely to use formal management practices than larger firms, but that such … returns are most apparent for those SMEs that invest in human resource management practices, such as training and performance …
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decisions of SMEs have been affected by credit constraints in the wake of the Great Recession. Variability in banks' financial … Belgian economy, clearly highlight that credit matters. They show that SMEs borrowing money from pre-crisis financially less … constraints have been essentially detrimental for employment among SMEs experiencing a negative demand shock or facing strong …
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and energy standards on the energy efficiency of SMEs in North Africa and suggests actions and policies to encourage …
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