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countries with higher SME financial inclusion exhibit more effective monetary policy transmission and tax collection. Second, we … higher for SMEs. We also obtain evidence of a substantial positive impact on SME employment and labor productivity growth … employment and growth gains from SME financial inclusion, which appear larger in the Middle East and Central Asia than in other …
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effective engines of inclusive growth, a rethinking of the SME development strategy is needed that makes SMEs' digital …
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Many small middle-income countries (SMICs) in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) have experienced a moderation in growth in recent years. Although factor accumulation, most notably capital deepening, was crucial to the success of many SMICs historically, this growth model appears to have run its course....
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Promoting credit services to small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) has been a perennial challenge for policy makers globally due to high information costs. Recent fintech developments may be able to mitigate this problem. By leveraging big data or digital footprints on existing platforms,...
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After impressive growth in the 2000s, China's productivity has more recently stagnated. We use firm-level data to … analyze productivity and firm dynamism trends from 2003 to 2018. We document six facts that together show a decline in China … explaining China's sluggish TFP growth and that SOE reform could boost productivity growth indirectly by stimulating business …
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China’s current growth model— which has delivered steady and robust growth for two decades and lifted some 500 million … continued reliance on capital accumulation, China can grow at a healthy pace and maintain its convergence toward the level of … high income economies. Evidence from China’s provinces indicates that there is room to improve productivity and sustain …
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