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Credit Reporting at the Base of the Pyramid : Key Issues and Success Factors

Lyman, Timothy - 2011

Over the past five years, the microcredit sector has experienced unprecedented growth. The number of borrowers served by microfinance institutions (MFIs) has increased threefold to reach 120 million clients, according to MIX estimates as of December 2009 and by other estimates the number may be...

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Private Sector Solutions to Helping Smallholders Succeed : Social Enterprise Business Models in the Agriculture Sector

Tinsley, Elaine - 2018

cost of their services or products will be recuperated by the benefits and income gains that smallholders will achieve. To … market-based solutions that have proven effective at supporting smallholders and to synthesize the experiences of social …

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Working with Smallholders : A Handbook for Firms Building Sustainable Supply Chains

2009

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Structural Transformation of Small Farms in Moldova : Implications for Poverty Reduction and Shared Prosperity

World Bank Group - 2016

The agricultural and food production sector plays a key role in fighting poverty and food insecurity in Moldova, but is facing critical challenges to modernize and integrate into the international market. This paper focuses on smallholder farms, which make up 95 percent of all farms, and...

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ICT in Agriculture : Connecting Smallholders to Knowledge, Networks, and Institutions

World Bank - 2011

The livelihoods of the world's poor rise and fall with the fate of agriculture. Enhancing the ability of smallholders …

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Working with Smallholders : A Handbook for Firms Building Sustainable Supply Chains

International Finance Corporation - 2016

agricultural commodities. Smallholders also represent a potential customer base for firms marketing inputs, information, and …

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ICT in Agriculture (Updated Edition) : Connecting Smallholders to Knowledge, Networks, and Institutions

2017

Information and communication technology (ICT) has always mattered in agriculture. Ever since people have grown crops, raised livestock, and caught fish, they have sought information from one another. Today, ICT represents a tremendous opportunity for rural populations to improve productivity,...

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Shared Prosperity through Inclusive Business : How Successful Companies Reach the Base of the Pyramid

Gaertner, Kathleen - 2014

Shared Prosperity through Inclusive Business: How Successful Companies Reach the Base of the Pyramid summarizes the practical lessons learned from IFC clients that successfully reach low-income people as suppliers or customers. There are lessons for each phase of the value chain-including...

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Capital Markets and SMEs in Emerging Markets and Developing Economies : Can They Go the Distance?

World Bank Group - 2020

that started in 2007, there has been an active debate about the role that capital markets can play in SME financing. This … report seeks to enhance practitioners' understanding of the potential role that capital markets can have in SME financing in …-based solutions to expand SME financing with a view to identifying key preconditions and challenges for EMDEs implementing the …

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Inclusive Global Value Chains : Policy Options for Small and Medium Enterprises and Low-Income Countries

Cusolito, Ana Paula - 2016 - Online-Ausg.

This report's focus is making global value chains (GVCs) more inclusive. To achieve inclusiveness is by overcoming participation constraints for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and facilitation access for Low Income Developing Countries (LIDCs). The underlying assumption is that most firms...

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