Contemporary agricultural companies are turning into complex businesses. Living in the countryside and running a holding is no longer a lifestyle but rather a business model aimed at manufacturing goods and bringing profit. In order to enhance their competitiveness, agricultural companies are...

Business plan competitions can be a crucial factor to boost entrepreneurship through mitigating information and credit constraints, but the existing literature does not address that their impacts could go beyond intended beneficiaries. In this paper, I cover this aspect by studying the overall...

This paper analyzes the situation of SMEs in Mongolia, especially their financial situation and financing mechanisms, the business environment, the existing policies, and value chain analysis, and makes suggestions for enhancing their development. Value chains that have their potential developed...

A strong small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector can contribute much to a country's economy by fostering innovation, creating jobs, and reducing poverty. This paper examines the status of SME finance in Georgia and the involvement of Georgian SMEs in global value chains. The role of SMEs...

Kenyan farmers' Deposit-taking Savings and Credit Co- operatives (DT-SACCOs) have seen a drop in credit provision, from 9.6 % in 2022 to 5.2 % in 2023. Additionally, 52 % of these SACCOs have been declared illiquid due to imprudent lending practices. This has led to the closure or license...

The paper empirically investigates credit access and borrowing costs in Poland's rural financial market. We conduct an econometric analysis based on cross-sectional survey data including formal loans taken in the period 1997-1999. A hedonic regression of the effective interest rate, comprising...