this study, we assess the extent and determinants of linkages between SMEs and large firms in Tanzania and to what degree … beneficial for the increased performance of SMEs, the level of such linkages is low in Tanzania and is likely to be influenced by …. This implies that the government's efforts to promote SMEs should include policies or programmes that nurture partnerships …

. This paper investigates how the access to finance affects employment in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Sub … an impact evaluation-based approach on firm-level data from 42 African countries, we show that SMEs with access to formal …

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are important for employment and economic activity; however, they are perceived to … more willing to lend to SMEs. In this paper, we directly ask banks (the main providers of SME external finance) what … factors they perceive as drivers and obstacles to financing SMEs. We also study to what degree competition and the …

Korean government has invested significant amount of resources through credit guarantee funds to promote SMEs survival …

business sector increased significantly in Europe. According to surveys of the EC-Flash Eurobarometer (2005), over 77% of SMEs … cycle the traditional credit constraint faced by SMEs (Vohrl and Adams, 1997; EU 2011; Callejón and Segarra, 2012), would … than in others (ECB-Survey on the access to finance of SMEs in the euro area, 2011). The question this paper raises is …