Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play an important role in generating economic activity and employment in … developing and developed countries. However, partly due to remaining at-the-border trade costs, SMEs continue to be less … (TFIs) – and various measures of international engagement of SMEs. While there are differentiated impacts across firm size …

(SMEs) in manufacturing and across different types of services. The study explores the extent to which binding constraints … faced by SMEs producing goods may differ from small firms operating in services sectors and takes stock of how existing … performance of SMEs in manufacturing, it is an ambiguous predictor of export performance in the case of small-sized services firms …

productivity, exporting more sophisticated products and a less concentrated export basket (Kowalski et al., 2015). However, it is … enterprises (SMEs), which tend to employ the largest share of workers, struggling to benefit from the opportunities offered by the … evolving GVC landscape. This paper identifies how SMEs in ASEAN economies participate in GVCs by combining firm level data with …

relatively simple digital tools, such as webpages, remains relatively low, constraining the ability of ASEAN SMEs to engage in …

benefits from participation are accruing to larger firms or if small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), which make up the … database and map how SMEs have been participating in GVCs. It then identifies the benefits associated with this participation … makers focus on: i) reducing trade costs that hit SMEs hardest; including tariffs, trade agreements and trade facilitation …

economies. Exporting final products, importing intermediates for domestic production and re-exporting are all associated with …