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Bridging the "missing middle" between microfinance and small and medium-sized enterprise finance in South Asia
Shankar, Savita - 2016
With maturity in the microfinance market in South Asia, it is observed that some microfinance members' needs grow … beyond the boundaries of traditional microfinance group loans. In addition, there are other small enterprises whose needs are … not met by microfinance institutions or commercial banks. It is important to address the financing needs of these firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011522083
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Financing from family and friends
Lee, Samuel; Persson, Petra - 2012
though they relax financing constraints. We relate this insight to the limited success of group-based microfinance in … loans ; social ties ; altruism ; peer-to-peer lending ; small business ; entrepreneurial finance ; microfinance ; missing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009737925
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Revenues, expenses, profitability and investments of potential contenders for the status of a listed company in Poland
Małecka, Joanna - 2015
arising from the undeniable specificity of the entire SME sector and large companies operating in Poland. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012030671
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Paradoxes of SMEs Finance by MFIs in Morocco
Mouhallab, Sofia - 2016
development and social progress. In Morocco, the fact that Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) had provided basic financial services …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012989700
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Microfinance institutions' criteria on small business financing in Cameroon
Elle, Serge Messomo - In: Journal of entrepreneurial finance : JEF ; official … 21 (2019) 2, pp. 24-45
This study uses MFIs as a unit of analysis to examine the factors of human, financial and social capital that increase the financing of microenterprises’ identification of opportunities and exploitation in Cameroon .To attain this objective, a questionnaire was used to collect data from 207...
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The Impact of Microcredit on Women-owned Small and Medium Enterprises : Evidence from Kenya
Osa Ouma, Clemencia - 2014
Microcredit is a crucial tool for economic empowerment of women. In Kenya, the microcredit industry has supported more than 3 million small and medium enterprises for close to 30 years. Kenya Women Finance Trust is a leading microcredit institution dealing exclusively with financing needs of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013064291
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Financial Constraints, Risk Taking and Firm Performance : Recent Evidence from Microfinance Clients in Tanzania
Adriaan Boermans, Martijn - 2014
analyzes how these variables are connected in the context of a high risk environment. Using data from micro-finance clients in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013065043
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Mutual Guarantee Institutions and Small Business Finance
Columba, Francesco - 2009
A large literature showed that small firms experience difficulties in accessing the credit market due to informational asymmetries; these may be mitigated by collateral or relationship lending, possibilities often precluded to small business. We investigate the effect on small business finance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159734
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Unlocking Access to Finance for SMEs : A Cross-Country Analysis
Fouejieu, Armand - 2020
(SMEs) in the world. The paper provides empirical evidence on the drivers of SME access to finance for a large sample of … development and better governance would help close the SME financial inclusion gap between MENAP and CCA regions and the best …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012836535
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Leveraging SME finance through value chains in landlocked CAREC countries : overview
Morgan, Peter J.; Nurgaliyeva, Akerke; Kydyrbayev, Dossym - 2019
This study takes stock of the challenges faced by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the CAREC landlocked economies in terms of their access to finance resulting from demand-side, supply-side and institutional constraints. This includes identifying cultural, procedural, institutional...
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