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SME Finance
Ayyagari, Meghana - 2017
This paper takes stock of the empirical evidence on the financing challenges faced by small and medium enterprises, especially in developing countries. The paper first discusses the institutional constraints that impede access to finance, including the lack of reliable credit information, lack...
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SME Finance in Africa
Beck, Thorsten - 2017
This paper uses cross-country firm-level surveys to gauge access to financial services and the importance of financing constraints for African enterprises. The paper compares access to finance in Africa and other developing regions of the world, within Africa across countries, and across...
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Compensation, Diversity and Inclusion at the World Bank Group
Das, Jishnu - 2017
This paper examines salary gaps by gender and nationality at the World Bank Group between 1987 and 2015 using a unique panel of all employees over this period. The paper develops and implements a dynamic simulation approach that models existing gaps as arising from differences in job composition...
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Good Countries or Good Projects? Comparing Macro and Micro Correlates of World Bank and Asian Development Bank Project Performance
Bulman, David Janoff - 2017
This paper examines the micro and macro correlates of aid project outcomes in a sample of 3,821 World Bank projects and 1,342 Asian Development Bank projects. Project outcomes vary much more within countries than between countries: country-level characteristics explain only 10?25 percent of...
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Mobilization Effects of Multilateral Development Banks
Broccolini, Chiara - 2020
This study uses loan-level data on syndicated lending to a large sample of developing countries between 1993 and 2017 to estimate the mobilization effects of multilateral development banks (MDBs), that is, their ability to crowd-in capital from private creditors. Controlling for a large set of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012840715
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Does the World Bank Foster Business?
Giordano, Raffaela; Pagano, Patrizio - 2017
This study investigates the impact of World Bank development policy loans on the ease of doing business. It finds that the cumulative number of development policy loans enhances business climate, especially for less developed countries and when combined with an International Monetary Fund...
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The Status of Bank Lending to Smes in the Middle East and North Africa Region : The Results of a Joint Survey of the Union of Arab Bank and the World Bank
Rocha, Roberto de Rezende - 2017
Among the principal constraints for SME lending is the lack of SME transparency, poor credit information from credit … SME finance in the region, and are associated with higher levels of SME lending. The paper concludes that MENA policy …
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SME Exchanges in Emerging Market Economies : A Stocktaking of Development Practices
Harwood, Alison - 2017
In recent years, many emerging market countries have developed or are in the process of developing SME Exchanges to … key questions to be addressed to determine if, when, how and for whom to develop an SME Exchange in emerging market …, without compromising the prudential needs of investors. The paper draws on the experience of seven SME Exchanges and the World …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972279
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Informal Firms and Financial Inclusion : Status and Determinants
Farazi, Subika - 2017
Many firms in the developing world -- including a majority of micro, small, and medium enterprises -- operate in the informal economy. The informal firms face a variety of constraints, making it harder for them to do business and grow. Lack of access to finance is often cited as the biggest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973508
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What Have We Learned from the Enterprise Surveys Regarding Access to Credit by Smes?
Kuntchev, Veselin - 2017
Using a unique firm level data set -- the Enterprise Surveys -- this paper develops a new measure of credit-constrained status for firms using hard data instead of perceptions data. The paper classifies firms into four ordinal categories: Not Credit Constrained, Maybe Credit Constrained,...
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