This EIF Working Paper elaborates on the most recent update2 of the EIF SME Access to Finance (ESAF) Index, a composite … indicator that monitors SME external financing markets in the 28 EU countries. The ESAF was developed by EIF in collaboration …

This EIF Working Paper elaborates on the most recent update of the EIF SME Access to Finance (ESAF) Index, a composite … indicator used to monitor SME external financing markets in the 28 EU countries. The current update, using latest available data …

This EIF Working Paper outlines the methodology underlying the new EIF SME Access to Finance (ESAF) Index. This newly …

current inflationary environment, the war in Ukraine and the aftermath of the pandemic on the SME financing environment. The … publication first discusses the general market environment and then covers the markets for SME equity and debt products. In …

combining these financing mechanisms. We draw on a cluster RCT in rural India of a sanitation labelled microcredit program …, implemented by chance around the onset of a large sanitation policy comprising partial subsidies – Swacch Bharat or ‘Clean India …

for decades, the goal of universal financial inclusion is yet to be achieved in India. The Indian financial inclusion …

Digital technologies are rapidly making inroads into all realms of human life and the microfinance sector is one such … inclusion. This paper explores how these mechanisms - innovation, inclusion and efficiency - have been integral to microfinance … operations in the past, and how innovations in digital technology may be yet another opportunity for microfinance institutions to …