effective engines of inclusive growth, a rethinking of the SME development strategy is needed that makes SMEs' digital … sized enterprises (SMEs) with a view to create jobs and achieve inclusive growth. But while the programs have helped … increase the number of enterprises, growth of SMEs continues to face barriers to growth. As a result, microenterprises …

While production of ICT equipment plays a subordinate role for economic growth in most of these countries, they do … benefit from capital deepening arising from falling prices of ICT equipment. Adapting established growth accounting approaches … to the data environment of low-income countries, we quantify the growth impacts of absorption of ICT equipment, finding …

). Firm-level SME data and sectoral corporate balance sheets show that many SMEs have faced structural challenges of high … conditions have been accommodative, credit growth has remained weak, especially for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs … leverage and low profitability. Moreover, the global financial crisis has weakened the financial position across SMEs …

Promoting credit services to small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) has been a perennial challenge for policy makers …. Furthermore, the fintech approach benefits SMEs that are smaller and in smaller cities, hence complementing the role of banks by …

We estimate the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on business failures among small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) in … aggregate supply, productivity, and demand shocks. We estimate a large increase in the failure rate of SMEs under COVID-19 of …, Education, and Other Services are among the most affected sectors. The jobs at risk due to COVID-19 related SME business …